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Thrift : the history of an American cultural movement
- Title
- Thrift : the history of an American cultural movement / Andrew L. Yarrow.
- Author
- Yarrow, Andrew L.
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014].
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Details
- Description
- 209 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In this lively and engaging book, Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of a national movement that promoted an amalgam of values and practices ranging from self-control, money management, and efficiency to conservation, generosity, and planning for the future -- all under the rubric of 'thrift'. Emerging in tandem and in tension with the first flowerings of consumer society, the thrift movement flourished during the 1910s and 1920s and then lingered on the outskirts of American culture from the Depression to the prosperous mid-twentieth century. A post-World War II culture that centered on spending and pleasure made the early-twentieth-century thrift messages seem outdated. Nonetheless, echoes of thrift can be found in currently popular ideas of 'sustainability', and 'simplicity' and in efforts to curtail public and private debt." -- Back cover.
- Subject
- 1900 - 1999
- Thriftiness > United States > History > 20th century
- Social movements > United States > History > 20th century
- Social values > United States > History > 20th century
- Saving and investment > Social aspects > History > United States > 20th century
- Economic history
- Saving and investment > Social aspects
- Social conditions
- Social movements
- Social values
- Thriftiness
- United States > Economic conditions > 20th century
- United States > Social conditions > 20th century
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-197) and index.
- Contents
- Prelude -- The early twentieth-century American thrift movement -- Precursors of a movement -- Thrift's heyday, 1910s/1930 -- Teaching thrift in the schools -- The philosophy of thrift -- National Thrift Week -- Allies and strange bedfellows -- The international dimension -- The decline of thrift -- From thrift to sustainability.
- Call Number
- JBE 15-346
- ISBN
- 9781625341327 (paperback : alkaline paper)
- 1625341326 (paperback : alkaline paper)
- 9781625341310 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
- 1625341318 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
- LCCN
- 2014021803
- 40024709154
- OCLC
- 880861073
- Author
- Yarrow, Andrew L.
- Title
- Thrift : the history of an American cultural movement / Andrew L. Yarrow.
- Publisher
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014].
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-197) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40024709154
- Research Call Number
- JBE 15-346