Fr. 36.50

Brief History of Thrift

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book explores 'thrift' through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, and via key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles, and Henry Thoreau.

List of contents










Introduction
1 Religious thrift: Puritans, Quakers and Benjamin Franklin
2 Individualist thrift: Victorians, Individualism, and Samuel Smiles
3 Spiritual thrift: Simplicity, anti-consumption and Henry Thoreaux
4 Nationalist thrift: revolution, depression and world wars
5 Consumer thrift: race, responsibility and rights
6 Ecological thrift: frugality, nature and anti-Capitalism
7 Ideological thrift: One Nation Tories and the current Age-of-Austerity
Conclusion
Index

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Alison Hulme lectures in International Development at the University of Northampton

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