Consumer Society in American History
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-8486-5 (ISBN)
Consumption has often been called America's true national pastime. From the earliest European explorers trading with Native Americans to today's Internet shoppers, consumerism has driven American society. Until recent years, however, consumerism has received little serious attention from historians and other scholars.
This welcome volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date. The first book on this topic to span the four centuries from the colonial era to the present, and the first to propose theoretical frameworks, the volume brings consumer society to the center of American history. Indeed, its authors demonstrate the many ways their research enhances knowledge of a broad range of historical topics, such as politics, labor ideology, immigrant life, and race, gender, and class relations. By including types of consumer studies which are seldom linked, this volume offers both a basis for historical synthesis and a springboard for further inquiry.
With contributions by Raymond Williams, Jean Baudrillard, Juliet B. Schor, Kim Moody, Jean-Christophe Agnew, and many others, plus the most comprehensive bibliographical essay ever produced on the historiography of American consumption, Consumer Society in American History will take its place as the definitive sourcebook for this emerging field.
Lawrence B. Glickman is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and the author of A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society, also from Cornell.
Introduction: Born to Shop? Consumer History and American History - LAWRENCE B. GLICKMANPart I. Frameworks and Definitions
1. Consumer - RAYMOND WILLIAMS
2. Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming - COLIN CAMPBELL
3. Consumer Society - JEAN BAUDRILLARD
4. What Is an Economy For? - JAMES FALLOWS
5. An Environmentalist's Perspective on Consumer Society - ALAN DURNINGPart II. Roots of American Consumer Society
6. The First Consumer Revolution - JAMES AXTELL
7. Narrative of Commercial Life: Consumption, Ideology, and Community on the Eve of the American Revolution - T. H. BREEN
8. Consumption in Early Modern Social Thought - JOYCE APPLEBYPart III. Class, Gender, and Modernity, 1880-1940
9. Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920s - LIZABETH COHEN
10. Familiar Sounds of Change: Music and the Growth of Mass Culture - GEORGE SANCHEZ
11. From Scarcity to Abundance: The Immigrant as Consumer - ANDREW HEINZE
12. Consuming Brotherhood: Men's Culture, Style and Recreation as Consumer Culture, 1880-1930 - MARK A. SWIENCICKI
13. "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" - CHERYL GREENBERGPart IV. Consumerism Since World War II
14. The 'Work' Ethic and 'Leisure' Activity: The Hot Rod in Post-War America - H. F. MOORHOUSE
15. The Commodity Gap: Consumerism and the Modern Home - ELAINE TYLER MAY
16. The Revolution Will be Marketed: American Corporations and Black Consumers During the 1960s - ROBERT E. WEEMS, JR.
17. All Work and No Play. It Doesn't Pay - JULIET B. SCHOR
18. When High Wage Jobs Are Gone, Who Will Buy What We Make? - KIM MOODY
19. The Green Consumer - JOHN ELKINGTON, JULIA HAILES, AND JOEL MAKOWERPart V. Critiques and Celebrations
20. Delectable Materialism: Second Thoughts on Consumer Culture - MICHAEL SCHUDSON
21. The Tyranny of Choice - STEVEN WALDMAN
22. The Pleasures of Eating - WENDELL BERRY
Coming Up for Air: Consumer Culture in Historical Perspective - JEAN-CHRISTOPHE AGNEWBibliographic Essay - LAWRENCE B. GLICKMAN
Contributors
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.9.1999 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Ithaca |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 907 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8014-8486-3 / 0801484863 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8014-8486-5 / 9780801484865 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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