Consuming behaviours : identity, politics and pleasure in twentieth-century Britain /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Rappaport, Erika Diane, 1963- (Editor), Dawson, Sandra Trudgen (Editor), Crowley, Mark J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Erika Rappaport, Sandra Trudgen Dawson and Mark J. Crowley
  • Who is the Queer consumer? Historical perspectives on capitalism and homosexuality / Justin Bengry
  • 'Healthier and better clothes for men': men's dress reform in interwar Britain / Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
  • Selling, consuming and becoming the beautiful man in Britain: 1930s and 1940s / Paul R. Deslandes
  • Rational recreation in the age of affluence: the cafĂ© and working class youth in London, c. 1939-65 / Kate Bradley
  • Teenagers, photography, and self-fashioning, 1956-65 / Penny Tinkler
  • Unwanted consumers: violence and consumption in British football o the 1970s
  • Consumer communication as commodity: British advertising agencies and the global market for advertising, 1780-1980 / Stefan Schwarzkopf
  • Drink empire tea: gender, conservative politics and imperial consumerism in Inter-war Britain / Erika Rappaport
  • Female credit customers, the United Africa Company and consumer markets in postwar Ghana / Bianca Myrilla
  • Designing consumer society: citizens and housing plans during World War II / Sandra Trudgen Dawson
  • Saving for the nation: the post office and national consumerism, c. 1860-1945 / Mark J. Crowley
  • Prosperity for all? Britain and mass consumption in western Europe after WOrld War II / Kenneth MourĂ©
  • A house divided: the organized consumer and the British Labour Party, 1945-60 / Peter Gurney
  • Early British television: the allure and threat of America / Kelly Boyd.