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A consumers' republic : the politics of mass consumption in postwar America
- Title
- A consumers' republic : the politics of mass consumption in postwar America / Lizabeth Cohen.
- Author
- Cohen, Lizabeth.
- Publication
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003.
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- Description
- 567 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- A social and political history describes how mass consumption and the pursuit of prosperity transformed American life during the second half of the twentieth century.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- Part I : Origins of the postwar consumers' republic -- Depression : rise of the citizen consumer ; War : citizen consumers do battle on the home front -- Part II : Birth of the consumers' republic -- Reconversion : the emergence of the consumers' republic ; Rebellion : forcing open the doors of public accommodations -- Part III : Landscape of mass consumption -- Residence : inequality in mass suburbia ; Commerce : reconfiguring community marketplaces -- Part IV : Political culture of mass consumption -- Culture : segmenting the mass ; Politics : purchasers politicized -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0375407502
- 9780375407505
- 9780375707377
- 0375707379
- LCCN
- 2002141599
- 9780375407505
- OCLC
- ocm49530256
- 49530256
- SCSB-4329460
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries