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Keeping up with the Joneses : envy in American consumer society, 1890-1930 / Susan J. Matt.
LIBRA HN90.M6 M37 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matt, Susan J. (Susan Jipson), 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social values--United States--History.
- Social values.
- Envy--Social aspects.
- Envy.
- Social status--United States--History.
- Social status.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Social change--United States--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- "How the Tenth Commandment (that's the one about coveting) became extinct is a tale of how the emotional style of this country mutated within the golden years of the nascent consumer economy, which Susan J. Matt . . . defines as the period between 1890 and 1930. She explains that we couldn't be a nation of consumers until we were given public license to envy."--"New York Times"
- Contents:
- City women and the quest for status
- Envy in the office
- "The prizes of life lie away from the farm"
- Coming of age in consumer society.
- Notes:
- Based on her Ph. D. thesis presented to Cornell University 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-214) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Given to the Penn Libraries by Margy Ellin Meyerson in memory of her husband, President Emeritus Martin Meyerson.
- ISBN:
- 0812236866
- OCLC:
- 50294937
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