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Thrift and thriving in America : capitalism and moral order from the Puritans to the present edited by Joshua J. Yates and James Davison Hunter
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HC 110 .S3 T46 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saving and investment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--History.
- Saving and investment.
- Thriftiness--United States--History.
- Thriftiness.
- Capitalism--United States--History.
- Capitalism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 622 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
- Contents:
- The question of thrift / James Davison Hunter, Joshua J. Yates
- The controversial virtue of thrift in the early American republic / Daniel Walker Howe
- The prehistory of American thrift / Deirdre McCloskey
- Saving grace and moral striving : thrift in Puritan theology / James Calvin Davis, Charles Mathewes
- Thrift and prosperity / Stephen Innes
- Moderation in the first era of popular consumption / Joyce Appleby
- Spreading the gospel of self-denial : thrift and association in Antebellum America / Kathleen D. McCarthy
- African Americans, slavery, and thrift from the Revolution to the Civil War / Patrick Rael
- The modernization of thrift / T.J. Jackson Lears
- Thrift and moral formation / James Davison Hunter
- The virtue of consumption : challenging thrift in an age of transition / Lawrence B. Glickman
- Thrift and advertising / Jennifer Scanlon
- Hard payments : consumer credit and thrift / Lendol Calder
- Mass philanthropy as public thrift for an age of consumption / Olivier Zunz
- Immigrants and thrift / David M. Reimers
- Saving for democracy : thrift, sacrifice, and the World War II bond campaigns / Kiku Adatto
- Why do Americans save so little and does it matter? / Robert H. Frank
- The rise and fall of "collective thrift" : social insurance, economic planning, and the decline of modern American liberalism / Steven Fraser
- Middle-class respectability in twenty-first-century America : work and lifestyle in the professional-managerial stratum / Steven Brint, Kristopher Proctor
- Thrift in the other America / Wilson Brissett
- Thrift and waste in American history : an ecological view / J.R. McNeill, George Vrtis
- Disputing abundance : the antiglobalization protest movement and our changing natural imaginary / Joshua J. Yates
- Thrift and thriving : toward a moral framework for economic life / Joshua J. Yates, James Davison Hunter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199769063 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0199769060 (cloth : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 645790139
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