1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964592103321

Titolo

The politics of consumption : material culture and citizenship in Europe and America / / edited by Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Berg, , 2001

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-350-04892-5

1-282-90781-6

9786612907814

1-84788-110-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Leisure, consumption and culture

Disciplina

306.3

339.4709

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Political aspects

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects

Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Material Politics: An Introduction; 2 What is Rum? The Politics of Consumption in the French Revolution; 3 Social Opulence, Private Asceticism: Ideas of Consumption in Early Socialist Thought; 4 The Material Politics of Natural Monopoly: Consuming Gas in Victorian Britain; 5 Scotch Drapers and the Politics of Modernity: Gender, Class and National Identity in the Victorian Tally Trade; 6 'National Taste?' Citizenship Law, State Form, and Everyday Aesthetics in Modern France and Germany, 1920-1940

7 Bread, Milk and Democracy: Consumption and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain 8 Enticement and Deprivation: The Regulation of Consumption in Pre-War Nazi Germany; 9 Negotiating Consumption in a Dictatorship: Consumption Politics in the GDR in the 1950's and 1960's; 10 Citizens and Consumers in the United States in the Century of Mass Consumption; 11 The Politics of Plenty in the Twentieth-Century United States; 12 Consumer Politics in Post-war



Britain; 13 Strategies of Consumer-Group Mobilization: France and Germany in the 1970's

14 Corralling Consumer Culture: Shifting Rationales for American State Intervention in Free Markets Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910147210803321

Titolo

Economics : the open-access, open-assessment e-journal / / Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kiel, Germany, : Kiel Institute for the World Economy

[Germany], : De Gruyter

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Economics

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed