21H.206 American Consumer Culture, Fall 2001

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Author(s)
Jacobs, Meg, 1969-
Alternative Title
American Consumer Culture
Date Issued
December 2001
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.
Subjects
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
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. History Section
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