21H.206 American Consumer Culture, Fall 2001
Alternative Title:
American Consumer Culture
Author:
Jacobs, Meg, 1969-
Date Issued:
2001-12
Abstract:
Examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the "good life" through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. Explores how such things as department stores, advertising, mass-produced cars, and suburbs transformed the American economy, society, and politics.
Other Identifiers:
21H.206-Fall2001
Other Identifiers:
21H.206
IMSCP-MD5-c9a369d7a90586df2e54e05a49ea4b85
Keywords:
twentieth century history, history, popular culture, united states, marketing, mass-production, economics, politics, middle class, twentieth-century Americans, 20th century, consumption, leisure, material abundance, department stores, advertising, mass-produced cars, suburbs, American economy, American society, American politics, mass market, turn of the century, middle-class society, interwar America, mass culture, postwar America, conspicuous consumption, good life, cars, automobiles, vehicles, window, storefront, store, shop, showroom, dealers, dealership, 190203, Consumer Merchandising/Retailing Management, 540102, American History (United States)
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