The rise of consumer capitalism in America, 1880-1930 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silla, Cesare (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Series:Contemporary liminality.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: revisiting the genealogy of consumer capitalism through liminality
  • On the threshold of a new era : making way for modernity
  • A new economic life
  • Souls in transition
  • Making the consumer city : the theatricalization of urban life
  • The chicago world's fair of 1893 and the urban ideal
  • The city as spectacle
  • The presentation of self in urban daily life
  • The genesis of the consumer : "image-making" and the production of desire
  • The personality of business
  • The new basis of civilization
  • Subjects of desire
  • Marketing professionalism: the engine of consumer capitalism and its lasting effect
  • Marketing plan and consumer research
  • Relationship marketing and the experience economy
  • Planned obsolescence and the consumption engineer
  • Concluding remarks
  • Bibliography
  • Index.