"This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it emerged to become the dominant form of social organisation of our time. Asking how it was that we came to be consumers who live…
This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it emerged to become the dominant form of social organization of our time. Asking how it was that we came to be consumers who live …
Présentation de l'éditeur : "This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it emerged to become the dominant form of social organization of our time. Asking how it was that we c…
Introduction: revisiting the genealogy of consumer capitalism through liminality -- On the threshold of a new era : making way for modernity -- A new economic life -- Souls in transition -- Making the consumer city : the theatricalization of urban life -- The chicago world's fai…