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The politics of consumption [electronic resource] : material culture and citizenship in Europe and America / edited by Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton.

Daunton, M. J. (Martin J.) (Added Author). Hilton, Matthew. (Added Author).

Summary:

This volume explores the emergence of the rational consuming individual in modern economic thought; the moral and ideological values consumers have attached to their relationships with commodities; and the practices and theories of consumer citizenship within the state. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions.

Record details

ISBN: 9781847881106 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1847881106 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 310 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Oxford : Berg, 2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Material politics : an introduction / Matthew Hilton and Martin Daunton / What is rum? The politics of consumption in the French Revolution / Rebecca L. Spang -- Social opulence, private asceticism : ideas of consumption in early socialist thought / Noel Thompson -- The material politics of natural monopoly : consuming gas in Victorian Britain / Martin Daunton -- Scotch drapers and the politics of modernity : gender, class and national identity in the Victorian tally trade / Margot C. Finn -- Citizenship law, state form and everyday aesthetics in modern France and Germany, 1920-1940 / Leora Auslander / Bread, milk and democracy : consumption and citizenship in twentieth-century Britain / Frank Trentmann -- Enticement and deprivation : the regulation of consumption in pre-war Nazi Germany / Hartmut Berghoff -- Negotiating consumption in a dictatorship : consumer politics in the GDR in the 1950s and 1960s / Philipp Heldmann -- Citizens and consumers in the United States in the century of mass consumption / Lizabeth Cohen -- The politics of plenty : consumerism in the twentieth-century United States / Meg Jacobs -- Consumer politics in post-war Britain / Matthew Hilton -- Strategies of consumer-group mobilization : France and Germany in the 1970s / Gunnar Trumbull -- Corralling consumer culture : shifting rationales for American state intervention in free markets / Gary Cross.
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