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Consuming Anxieties : Consumer Protest, Gender & British Slavery, 1713-1833 /
Boycotts are so commonplace these days that one hardly notices them, and yet they have a fascinating history, one closely connected to the growth of the British Empire and the birth of a consumer society. Consuming Anxieties asks why this mode of political protest has proved so influential over the...
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Colonialism and the Politics of Consumerism
- Chapter 2 From Curiosity to Commodity: Swift's Writings of the 1720s
- Chapter 3 Foreign Objects, Domestic Spaces: Transculturation in Humphry Clinker
- Chapter 4 Women and the Politics of Sugar, 1792
- Chapter 5 "Reading Before Praying" Ladies' Antislavery Societies, Textuality, Political Action, and The History of Mary Prince
- Chapter 6 Overseeing Violence: Sentimental Vision and Slave Labor
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index