Consuming cultures, global perspectives : historical trajectories, transnational exchanges /
Contributor(s): Brewer, John | Trentmann, Frank.
Series: Cultures of consumption series: Publisher: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Berg, 2006Description: x, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1845202465 (hardback); 9781845202460:; 9781845202460 (hardback); 1845202473 (pbk.); 9781845202477 (pbk.).Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects | Culture -- Economic aspects | Material culture | Pasadena <2004> $2 swdDDC classification: 306.3Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : space, time and value in consuming cultures / John Brewer and Frank Trentmann -- The modern genealogy of the consumer : meanings, identities and political synapses / Frank Trentmann -- Brand management and the productivity of consumption / Adam Arvidsson -- On the movement of porcelains : rethinking the birth of consumer society as interactions of exchange networks, 1600-1750 / Robert Batchelor -- Consumer culture and extractive industry on the margins of the world system / Richard Wilk -- "Flowers of paradise" or "Polluting the nation"? Contested narratives of Khat consumption / David M. Anderson and Neil Carrier -- Chewing gum : mass consumption and the 'shadow-lands' of the Yucatan / Michael R. Redclift -- Japan's post war "consumer revolution", or striking a "balance" between consumption and saving / Sheldon Garon -- Virtue, responsibility and consumer choice : framing critical consumerism / Roberta Sassatelli -- Negotiations with the American way : the consumer and the social contract in post-war Europe / Sheryl Kroen -- Emerging global water welfarism : access to water, unruly consumers and transnational governance / Bronwen Morgan.
A transnational perspective allows the authors to investigate the diversity of consumer cultures and the interaction between them. They look at the genealogy of the modern consumer and the development of consumer cultures.