Will American consumers buy a second American revolution?

Journal of American History

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 404-408

  Breen, T H ^a,b  

^a American History   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33751303928     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4486236     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. T. H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (New York, 2004).
2. "Journal of Josiah Quincy, Jun., During His Voyage and Residence in England from September 28th, 1774, to March 3d, 1775," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 50 (June 1917), 438.
3. Don H. Doyle and Marco Antonio Pamplona, eds., Nationalism in the New World (Athens, Ga., 2006).
4. Jan de Vries, "Between Purchasing Power and the World of Goods: Understanding the Household Economy in Early Modern Europe," in Consumption and the World of Goods, ed. John Brewer and Roy Porter (London, 1993), 85-132;
5. Jan de Vries, The Economy of Europe in the Age of Crisis, 1600-1750 (Cambridge, Eng., 1976);
6. Jan de Vries and Ad van der Woude, The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815 (Cambridge, Eng., 1997);
7. Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford, eds., Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe, 1650-1850 (Manchester, 1999);
8. Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger, eds., Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires, and Delectable Goods (Basingstoke, 2003);
9. Albert O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph (Princeton, 1977).
10. Bernard S. Cohn, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India (Princeton, 1996), 147.
11. Anyone interested in the relation between consumer activity and political resistance should read Bernard S. Cohn Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: the British in India ibid., 106-62.
12. See also Manu Goswami, "From Swadeshi to Swaraj: Nation, Economy, and Territory in Colonial South Asia, 1870 to 1907," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 40 (Oct. 1998), 609-36.
13. C. A. Bayly, "The Origins of Swadeshi (Home Industry): Cloth and Indian Society, 1700-1930," in The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, ed. Arjun Appadurai (Cambridge, Eng., 1986), 311;
14. Christopher Pinney, Photos of the Gods: The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India (London, 2004).
15. David Steigerwald, "All Hail the Republic of Choice: Consumer History as Contemporary Thought," Journal of American History, 93 (Sept. 2006), 403.
16. David Steigerwald, Journal of American History Ibid., 385.
17. T. H. Breen, "America's Insurgency: Reflections on Popular Mobilization during the American Revolution," in Atlantic Understandings: Essays on European and American History in Honor of Hermann Wellenreuther, ed. Claudia Schnurmann and Hartmut Lehmann (Hamburg, 2006), 231-44.
18. "Article Eleven of the Association of the First Continental Congress (20 October 1774)," in English Historical Documents: American Colonial Documents to 1776, ed. Merrill Jensen (New York, 1969), 815.
19. On the committees of safety and observation, see David Ammerman, In the Common Cause: American Response to the Coercive Acts, 1774 (Charlottesville, 1974).
20. Steigerwald, "All Hail the Republic of Choice," 396.
21. Steigerwald, All Hail the Republic of Choice Ibid., 403.