The marketplace of revolution how consumer politics shaped American independence
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press
2004.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31877187*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The revolutionary politics of consumption
- Tale of the hospitable consumer: a revolutionary argument
- pt. 1. An empire of goods
- Inventories of desire: the evidence
- Consumers' new world: the unintended consequences of commercial success
- Vade mecum: the great chain of colonial acquisition
- The corrosive logic of choice: living with goods
- pt. 2. "A commercial plan form political salvation"
- Strength out of dependence: strategies of consumer resistance in an empire of goods
- Making lists- taking names: the politicization of everyday life
- Bonfires of tea: the final act.
