Luxurious citizens: the politics of consumption in nineteenth-century america
Auteur :
Cohen, Joanna
Éditeur :
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN :
9780812248920
Date de publication :
20 févr. 2017
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.