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Face Value: The Consumer Revolution and the Colonizing of America
Cary Carson
Face Value: The Consumer Revolution and the Colonizing of America
Cary Carson
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.
228 pages, 77 black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | August 3, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9780813939377 |
Publishers | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 228 |
Dimensions | 467 g |
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