Face Value The Consumer Revolution and the Colonizing of America |
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| Author:
| Carson, Cary |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-3937-7 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2017 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.50 |
Book Description:
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Explores the intriguing question of how Americans became the world's consummate consumers. Cary Carson addresses the intriguing question of how Americans developed the reputation for avid consumption. Both elegantly written and engagingly argued, the book reveals how the rise of the gentry culture in eighteenth-century North America gave rise to a consumer economy.
Explores the intriguing question of how Americans became the world's consummate consumers. Cary Carson addresses the intriguing question of how Americans developed the reputation for avid consumption. Both elegantly written and engagingly argued, the book reveals how the rise of the gentry culture in eighteenth-century North America gave rise to a consumer economy.