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The Culture of consumption : critical essays in American history, 1880-1980 / edited by Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears.
Lippincott Library HC110.C6 C84 1983
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LIBRA HC110.C6 C84 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumption (Economics)--United States--History.
- Consumption (Economics).
- United States.
- History.
- Elite (Social sciences)--United States--History.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Social values--History.
- Social values.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 236 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [1983]
- Contents:
- From salvation to self-realization: advertising and the therapeutic roots of the consumer culture, 1880-1930 / ǂr T.J. Jackson Lears
- ǂt The rhetoric of consumption: mass-market magazines and the demise of the gentle reader, 1880-1920 / ǂr Christopher P. Wilson
- ǂt The consuming vision of Henry James / ǂr Jean-Christophe Agnew
- ǂt Epitaph for middletown: Robert S. Lynd and the analysis of consumer culture / ǂr Richard Wightman Fox
- ǂt Politics as consumption: managing the modern American election / ǂr Robert Westbrook
- ǂt Selling the moon: the U.S. manned space program and the triumph of commodity scientism / ǂr Michael L. Smith.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- Storage copy inscribed to Sheldon Hackney by Jean-Christophe Agnew.
- ISBN:
- 039451131X :
- OCLC:
- 9282000
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