| Description |
xvii, 236 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
From salvation to self-realization: advertising and the therapeutic roots of the consumer culture, 1880-1930 / T.J. Jackson Lears -- The rhetoric of consumption: mass-market magazines and the demise of the gentle reader, 1880-1920 / Christopher P. Wilson -- The consuming vision of Henry James / Jean-Christophe Agnew -- Epitaph for middletown: Robert S. Lynd and the analysis of consumer culture / Richard Wightman Fox -- Politics as consumption: managing the modern American election / Robert Westbrook -- Selling the moon: the U.S. manned space program and the triumph of commodity scientism / Michael L. Smith |
| Analysis |
Consumption (Economics) United States History |
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Elite (Social sciences) United States History |
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Social values History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- History.
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Elite (Social sciences) -- United States -- History.
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Social values -- History.
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| Author |
Fox, Richard Wightman, 1945-
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Lears, T. J. Jackson, 1947-
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| LC no. |
83002391 |
| ISBN |
039451131X |
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0394716116 (paperback) |
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