An All-Consuming Century
Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer rights movement. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, not only has American consumerism triumphed, there isn't even an ism left to challenge it. An All-Consuming Century is a rich history of how market goods came to dominate American life over that remarkable hundred years between 1900 and 2000 and why for the first time in history there are n…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-231-11312-0
- EAN: 9780231113120
- Produktnummer: 1150788
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.9 cm x D2.6 cm 595 g
- Abbildungen: 20 halftones
- Gewicht: 595
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Gary Cross
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