Luxurious Citizens - The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America

Joanna Cohen teaches American history at Queen Mary University of London.

List of contents

Introduction. Imagining the Citizen-Consumer

Chapter 1. Dilemmas of Abundance

Chapter 2. The Marketplace of Retribution

Chapter 3. The Perils of the Public Auction

Chapter 4. Of Tariffs and Taste

Chapter 5. "They Now Advertise Liberally"

Chapter 6. Consumers at War

Epilogue. The Citizen-Consumer and the State of the Nation

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Joanna Cohen

Summary

Luxurious Citizens traces the ways in which Americans tied consumer desire to the national interest between 1789 and 1865 and reveals how the nation transformed individual desires for goods into an index of civic worth, placing unbridled consumption at the heart of their modern political economy.

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Cohen
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780812248920
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4892-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Cent; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries