The Anxieties of Affluence : Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 eBook download online
The Anxieties of Affluence : Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979The Anxieties of Affluence : Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 eBook download online
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Author: Daniel HorowitzDate: 30 Sep 2005
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Language: English
Book Format: Paperback::352 pages
ISBN10: 1558495045
Dimension: 156.97x 232.66x 25.91mm::553.38g
The Anxieties of Affluence : Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 eBook download online. Immediately following the war, see Daniel Horowitz, Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939 1979 (Amherst 2004). Among the most influential bestselling critiques were John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Boston 1958), "Meg Jacobs has written a highly significant book that, illuminating major transitions in twentieth-century politics, recasts our understanding of the relationship of politics, state building, economic policy, labor unions, and consumer culture." Daniel Horowitz, author of The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture The Anxieties of Affluence is an essential book for social scientists and students of American culture." History: Reviews of New Books "Horowitz deftly elucidates some of the most important works of the mid-twentieth century concerned with consumer abundance and its moral and political significance. This book thus continues an exploration I began with The Morality of Spending: Attitudes toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940 and continued in The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979. In those books I traced shifts in moral stances toward consumer culture. 2 See the critical discussion in Daniel Miller, The Poverty of Morality, in: Journal of Consumer Culture 1, 2001, pp. 225 243, and the historical perspectives in Daniel Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence. Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939 1979, Amherst, MA 2004, and Frank Trentmann, Beyond Consumerism. New Historical Description this book Please continue to the next pageThe Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 [FREE] The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 Paperback September 27, 2005. This book charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the unprecedented prosperity of the decades following World War II. The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979: ISBN 9781558495043 (978-1-55849-504-3) Softcover, University of Massachusetts Press, 2005 Betty Friedan and the Making of "The Feminine Mystique": The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (Culture, Politics and the Cold War) The Anxieties of Affluence. Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979. A wide-ranging exploration of conflicting American attitudes toward affluence. [Best] The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 Online Ebook The Anxieties of Affluence is an essential book for social scientists and students of American culture." History: Reviews of New Books "Horowitz deftly elucidates some of the most important works of the mid-twentieth century concerned with consumer abundance and its moral and political significance. [4] Stefan Schwarzkopf and Rainer Gries, eds., Ernest Dichter and Motivation Research: New Perspectives on the Making of Post-War Consumer Culture (Palgrave MacMillan 2010); Daniel Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 (University of Massachusetts Press 2004). Critiques from within #-Daniel Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence. Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Chapter 2, Celebratory Emigres; Chapter 4, Critique from Within, pp. 101-128. The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939 1979. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Ix + 376 pp. In contrast to these moralists, post-moralists rejected the puritanical strain in American cultural criticism. They sought to move beyond the jeremiad, emphasizing not cleansing but accepting and even celebrating consumer culture. They understood people's longings for affluence as inevitable and genuine. They explored the utopian and liberatory Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-317) and index. The anxieties of affluence:critiques of American consumer culture, 1939-1979 He is author of Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998) and The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004). This book's subtitle is misleading. Daniel Horowitz's study is more than an examination of critiques of American consumer culture in the postwar period: it is a history of social thought from the mid to late twentieth century, and an immensely successful one at that. The Anxieties of Affluence is an essential book for social scientists and students of American culture." - History: Reviews of New Books "Horowitz deftly elucidates some of the most important works of the mid-twentieth century concerned with consumer abundance and its moral and political significance. The writing is always accessible, and the The complaints about American consumer habits have grown just about as fast. This book examines that critism from the end of the depression until 1979. The book has five broad themes. The persistence of highly charged, moralistic attitudes to consumer culture This work charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the deep-seated ambivalence toward consumer culture - a persistent but shifting tension between To explain why affluence has caused so much anxiety in America, the text The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979. The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 This book charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the unprecedented prosperity of the decades following World War II. It begins with an examination of Lewis Mumford's wartime call for "democratic" consumption and concludes wit
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