| 1 |
Introduction to the World of Goods |
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| Part I: The Rise of a Mass Market at the Turn of the Century |
| 2 |
Downtown Shopping |
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| 3 |
Leisure Time |
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| 4 |
The Business of Consumption |
Document Collection One Due |
| Part II: Making a Middle-class Society in Interwar America |
| 5 |
Roaring Twenties |
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| 6 |
Advertising the American Dream |
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| 7 |
Advertising the American Dream (continued) |
Document Collection Two Due |
| 8 |
Abundance and Its Critics (I) |
Mid-term Paper Due |
| Part III: Mass Culture in Postwar America |
| 9 |
Status Seeking in the Suburbs |
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| 10 |
Malling of America |
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| 11 |
Age of Television |
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| 12 |
Segmenting Markets |
Book Review One Due |
| Part IV: Conspicuous Consumption at Century's End |
| 13 |
McDonalds, Microwaves, and the Mega-Rich |
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| 14 |
Abundance And Its Critics (II) |
Book Review Two Due |
| 15 |
E-Bay and Beyond |
Final Paper Due |