Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1491
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- ISBN
- 9780812248920
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This research monograph is 300 pages long and examines how Americans tied citizenship to a liberal mode of consumption in the nineteenth century. It is based on rigorous original primary-source research, conducted at several US archives . It deploys a creative and multi-layered methodology, which models a cultural history of political economy. Its source-base incldues treatises on tariffs, pamphlets on manufacturing, pictorial advertising, account books, travel narratives, political debates and poetry on fashion. This unique approach enables new understanding of the origins of American consumer culture and the role of the citizen-consumer amidst current economic crisis.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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