03252oam 22006854a 450 991079363330332120230126221238.01-5261-2885-31-5261-4672-X1-5261-2884-510.7765/9781526128843(CKB)4100000008694938(MiAaPQ)EBC5824926(StDuBDS)EDZ0002153518(MdBmJHUP)muse77842(DE-B1597)659069(DE-B1597)9781526128843(EXLCZ)99410000000869493820190829d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA brief history of thriftAlison HulmeBaltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2019Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2019©20191 online resource (xi, 140 pages) illustrationsManchester scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2019.1-5261-2883-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-137) and index.Towards a theory of thrift -- Religious thrift : Puritans, Quakers and Methodists -- Individualist thrift : Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and -- Victorian moralism -- Spiritual thrift : simplicity, sensuality and politics in -- Henry Thoreau -- Nationalist thrift : making do, rationing and nostalgic austerity -- Consumer thrift : Keynes, consumer rights and the new -- thrifty consumers -- Ecological thrift : frugality, de- growth and Voluntary Simplicity -- Conclusion : Thoreau in the city.This book surveys 'thrift' through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, focussing in on key moments such as the early Puritans and Post-war rationing, and key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Henry Thoreau. The relationships between thrift and frugality, mindfulness, sustainability, and alternative consumption practices are explained, and connections made between myriad conceptions of thrift and contemporary concerns for how consumer cultures impact scarce resources, wealth distribution, and the Anthropocene. Ultimately, the book returns the reader to an understanding of thrift as it was originally used - to 'thrive' - and attempts to re-cast thrift in more collective, economically egalitarian terms, reclaiming it as a genuinely resistant practice.Manchester scholarship online.Social historyConsumption (Economics)Thriftinessabundance.austerity.de-growth.frugality.individualism.moralism.scarcity.simplicity.solidarity.thrift.Social history.Consumption (Economics)Thriftiness.332.024Hulme Alison1491951MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910793633303321A brief history of thrift3714107UNINA