Luxurious citizens : the politics of consumption in nineteenth-century America /

'Luxurious Citizens' traces the ways in which Americans tied consumer desire to the national interest between 1789 and 1865 and reveals how the nation transformed individual desires for goods into an index of civic worth, placing unbridled consumption at the heart of their modern political...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cohen, Joanna (Professor) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017.
Series:America in the nineteenth century.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Consumption (Economics) > United States > History > 19th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Consumption (Economics)
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction : Imagining the citizen-consumer
  • Chapter 1. Dilemmas of abundance
  • Chapter 2. The marketplace of retribution
  • Chapter 3. The perils of the public auction
  • Chapter 4. Of tariffs and taste
  • Chapter 5. "They now advertise liberally"
  • Chapter 6. Consumers at war
  • Epilogue : The citizen-consumer and the state of the nation
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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