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Drawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history, anthropology, and even environmental history can help us decode modern consumer societies.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Taking Stock and Forging Ahead: The Past and Future of Consumption History
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Consumption History Today
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Consumption and Historical Disciplines
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Case Studies
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Back Matter
Reviews
'This volume will serve as a useful companion to those interested in the history of consumers and consumption and the historiography of these themes.' - Pamela Swett, associate professor and chair, Department of History, McMaster University
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
HARTMUT BERGHOFF Director of the German Historical Institute.
UWE SPIEKERMANN Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute.
UWE SPIEKERMANN Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decoding Modern Consumer Societies
Editors: Hartmut Berghoff, Uwe Spiekermann
Series Title: Worlds of Consumption
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137013002
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The German Historical Institute 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11662-7Published: 15 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29729-0Published: 15 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01300-2Published: 02 January 2012
Series ISSN: 2945-6010
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6029
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 287
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social History, US History, Modern History, Cultural History