Luxurious citizens : the politics of consumption in nineteenth-century America /
"After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, they created one that empowered the modern citizen-consumer. This profound transformation was the uncoordinated and self-serving work of merchants, ma...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | America in the nineteenth century.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : imagining the citizen-consumer
- Dilemmas of abundance
- The marketplace of retribution
- The perils of the public auction
- Of tariffs and taste
- "They now advertise liberally"
- Consumers at war
- Epilogue : the citizen-consumer and the state of the nation.