The politics of consumption : material culture and citizenship in Europe and America / edited by Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daunton, M. J. (Martin J.), editor.

Hilton, Matthew, editor.

Series:

Leisure, consumption, and culture.

Leisure, consumption and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Political aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Berg, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores the emergence of the rational consuming individual in modern economic thought; the moral and ideological values consumers have attached to their relationships with commodities; and the practices and theories of consumer citizenship within the state. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Material Politics: An Introduction; 2 What is Rum? The Politics of Consumption in the French Revolution; 3 Social Opulence, Private Asceticism: Ideas of Consumption in Early Socialist Thought; 4 The Material Politics of Natural Monopoly: Consuming Gas in Victorian Britain; 5 Scotch Drapers and the Politics of Modernity: Gender, Class and National Identity in the Victorian Tally Trade; 6 'National Taste?' Citizenship Law, State Form, and Everyday Aesthetics in Modern France and Germany, 1920-1940

7 Bread, Milk and Democracy: Consumption and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain 8 Enticement and Deprivation: The Regulation of Consumption in Pre-War Nazi Germany; 9 Negotiating Consumption in a Dictatorship: Consumption Politics in the GDR in the 1950's and 1960's; 10 Citizens and Consumers in the United States in the Century of Mass Consumption; 11 The Politics of Plenty in the Twentieth-Century United States; 12 Consumer Politics in Post-war Britain; 13 Strategies of Consumer-Group Mobilization: France and Germany in the 1970's

14 Corralling Consumer Culture: Shifting Rationales for American State Intervention in Free Markets Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-350-04892-5

1-282-90781-6

9786612907814

1-84788-110-6

OCLC:

688291187