The marketplace of revolution : how consumer politics shaped American independence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aberjhani, 1957-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2004]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The revolutionary politics of consumption
  • Tale of the hospitable consumer: a revolutionary argument
  • pt. 1. An empire of goods
  • Inventories of desire: the evidence
  • Consumers' new world: the unintended consequences of commercial success
  • Vade mecum: the great chain of colonial acquisition
  • The corrosive logic of choice: living with goods
  • pt. 2. "A commercial plan form political salvation"
  • Strength out of dependence: strategies of consumer resistance in an empire of goods
  • Making lists- taking names: the politicization of everyday life
  • Bonfires of tea: the final act.