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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785482803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford [Great Britain], : Berg, 2001

ISBN

1-282-90781-6

9786612907814

1-84788-110-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Leisure, consumption, and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

DauntonM. J (Martin J.)

HiltonMatthew

Disciplina

306.3

339.4709

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Political aspects

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects

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.