Format:
1 online resource (xi, 261 pages)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9780511979255
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9780521198707
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9780521139595
Series Statement:
New approaches to European history
Content:
The production, acquisition, and use of consumer goods defines our daily lives, and yet consumerism is seen as increasingly controversial. Movements for sustainable and ethical consumerism are gaining momentum alongside an awareness of how our choices in the marketplace can affect public issues. How did we get here? This volume advances a bold new interpretation of the 'consumer revolution' of the eighteenth century, when European elites, middling classes, and even certain labourers purchased unprecedented quantities of clothing, household goods, and colonial products. Michael Kwass adopts a global perspective that incorporates the expansion of European empires, the development of world trade, and the rise of plantation slavery in the Americas. Kwass analyses the emergence of Enlightenment material cultures, contentious philosophical debates on the morality of consumption, and new forms of consumer activism to offer a fresh interpretation of the politics of consumption in the age of abolitionism and the Atlantic Revolutions.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Jan 2022)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521198707
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kwass, Michael The consumer revolution, 1650-1800 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780521139595
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521139597
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521198707
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521198704
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Europa
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Privater Verbrauch
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Verbraucherverhalten
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Konsumgut
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Geschichte 1650-1800
DOI:
10.1017/9780511979255
