Consumerism in world history: The global transformation of desire: Second edition

Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-164

  Stearns, Peter N ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203969885     Document Type: Book

References (108)

1. For a challenging guide to pre-modern consumerism but also its limitations: S.A.M. Adshead, Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400-1800 (New York: St Martin's Press, 1997).
2. William T. Rowe, Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984). On China's vibrant commercial economy and its influence:
3. André Gunder Frank, Reorient: Global Economy in the Asian Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
4. Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the Economy, 1400 to the Present (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999).
5. On the rise of coffee as a new consumer interest: Stewart Allen, The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History (New York: Soho, 1999).
6. John Brewer and Roy Porters, eds, Consumption and the World of Goods (New York: Routledge, 1993)
7. Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping and Business in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)
8. Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford, eds, Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe 1650-1850 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999)
9. Lorna Weatherill, Consumer Behavior and Material Culture in Britain, 1660-1760 (New York: Routledge, 1988)
10. Neil McKenrick, Colin Brewer, and J.A. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982)-a pioneering study
11. Carole Shammas, The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990). On women and early consumerism:
12. G.J. Barker Benfield, Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
13. In addition to the citations in Chapter 2: Colin Campbell, The Romantic Ethic and The Spirit of Modern Consumerism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987).
14. On eighteenth-century economics and state policy: Isabel Hull, Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996).
15. Early American consumerism is actually understudied. Several important articles appear in Lawrence Glickman, ed., Consumer Society in American History: A Reader (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999).
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17. Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America. Persons, Houses, Cities (New York: Vintage Books, 1992)
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19. and above all T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
20. Elaine Abelson, When Ladies Go A-thieving: Middle-class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989)
21. Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986)
22. John Benson, The Rise of Consumer Society in Britain, 1880-1980 (New York: Longman, 1994)
23. Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (New York: Cambridge University Press,1990);
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26. Eva Illouz, Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997);
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28. Alan Kidd and David Nicholls, eds, Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain 1800-1940 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999);
29. Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985);
30. Michael Miller, The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920 (Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press, 1981);
31. Stephen Nissenbaum, The Battle for Christmas (New York: Vintage Books, 1996);
32. Benjamin Rader, Baseball: a History of America's Game (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992);
33. Charles Rearick, Pleasures of the Belle Epoque: Entertainment and Festivity in Turn-of-the Century France (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985);
34. Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What we Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985);
35. Peter N. Stearns, Battleground of Desire: the Struggle for Self-control in Modern America (New York: New York University Press, 1999);
36. Vincent Vinikas, Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1992);
37. John K. Walton, The Blackpool Landlady: a Social History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1978);
38. Rosalind Williams, Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982).
39. L. Black and H. Pemberton, eds, An Affluent Society? Britain's Post War "Gold Age" Revisited (London: Ashgate, 2004);
40. Lisa Tiersten, Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-siecle France (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001).
41. David Horowitz, The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America (Chicago, IL: I.R. Dee, 1993);
42. Rosalind Williams, Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982);
43. Peter N. Stearns, Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West (New York: New York University Press, 1997);
44. Bonnie Smith, Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,1981).
45. On objections to consumerism, particularly between the world wars: Victoria de Grazia, Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981);
46. Victoria de Grazia with Ellen Furlough, The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996);
47. Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton, The Politics of Consumption: Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America (New York: Berg Press, 2001);
48. Matthew Hilton, Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003);
49. Gary Cross, Time and Money: the Making of Consumer Culture (London: Routledge, 1993).
50. S. Boym, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994);
51. D.R. Brower, The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990);
52. Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992);
53. John Gunther, Inside Russia Today (London: H. Hamilton, 1998);
54. Kelly and David Shephard, eds, Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution: 1881-1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998);
55. Christine Ruane, "Clothes shopping in Imperial Russia: the development of a consumer culture," Journal of Social History 28: 765-782 (Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1995);
56. R. Stites, Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society Since 1990 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992). On the GUM stores
57. Marjorie Hilton, "Retailing the Revolution: The State Department Store (GUM) and Soviet Society in the 1920s," Journal of Social History 37: 939-964.
58. Craig Clunas, Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991);
59. Susan Naquinand Evelyn Rawski, Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987);
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61. Charlotte Ikels, The Return of the God of Wealth: The Transition to a Market Economy in Urban China (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996);
62. Linda Cooke Johnson, Shanghai: from Market Town to Treaty Port, 1074-1858 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995);
63. Leo Lee, Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999);
64. Conghua Li, China: The Consumer Revolution (New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1998);
65. Dorothy Solinger, Chinese Business under Socialism (Berkeley, CA; London: University of California Press, 1984);
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68. Sharon Minichiello, Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998);
69. Chia Nakane and Shinzaburo Oishi, Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1990);
70. Edward Seidensticker, Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983);
71. Joseph Tobin, Re-made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992).
72. Brian Owensby, Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-class Lives in Brazil (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999);
73. Louis Pérez, Jr, On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999);
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76. Pre-Independence: T.L.V. Blair, Africa, A Market Profile (London: Business Publications Limited, 1965);
77. Ian Phimister, An Economic and Social History of Zimbabwe, 1890-1948 (New York: Longman, 1988);
78. Peter Delius, A Lion Amongst the Cattle: Reconstruction and Resistance in the Northern Transvaal (Oxford: J. Currey, 1996);
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81. John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680 (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
82. More recent developments: Timothy Burke, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe (London: Leicester University Press, 1996);
83. Philip Bonner, Isabel Hofmeyr, Deborah James, and Tom Lodge, Holding their Ground: Class, Locality and Culture in 19th and 20th Century South Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa: Witwatersrand University Press; Braamfontein, Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1989);
84. Belinda Bozzoli, Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983 ( Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1991);
85. Karen Hansen, Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
86. Ross Dunn, Resistance in the Desert: Moroccan Responses to French Imperialism, 1881-1912 (London: Croom Helm; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977);
87. Fatma Gocek, Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996);
88. Roger Owen, The Middle East in the World Economy 1800-1914 (London: Methuen, 1981).
89. Imam Khomeini, Hamid Algar, trans., Islam and Revolution (Islam: KPI, 1981);
90. Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi and Ali Mohammadi, Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture and the Iranian Revolution (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994);
91. Oslem Oz, The Competitive Advantage of Nations: The Case of Turkey (Aldershot, Hants; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999);
92. Donald Quataert, ed., Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000);
93. Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000);
94. Subidey Togan, Foreign Trade Regime and Trade Liberalization in Turkey During the 1980s (Aldershot, Hants; Brookfield, USA: Avebury, 1994).
95. J.R. Rabier, Consumer Attitudes in Europe 1975 (Ann Arbor, MI: Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1978);
96. Grant McCracken, Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988);
97. Don Slater, Consumer Culture and Modernity (Oxford, UK: Cambridge, MA: Polity Press; Blackwell Publishers, 1997);
98. Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood, The World of Goods: Toward an Anthropology of Consumption (London; New York: Routledge, 1996);
99. Maggie Andrews andMary Talbott, eds, All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture (London; New York: Cassell, 2000). On India: Carol Breckenridge, ed., Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian
100. Robert Stern, Changing India: Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993);
101. Rajni Kothari, Poverty: Human Consciousness and the Amnesia of Development (London: Zed, 1993);
102. Amartya Sen, Commodities and Capabilities (Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
103. On Latin America: Duncan Green, "The Silent Revolution": The Rise of Market Economics in Latin America (London: Cassell; New York:
104. Alan Wells, Picture-tube Imperialism? The Impact of U.S. Television on Latin America (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1972);
105. Benjamin Orlove, ed., The Allure of the Foreign: Imported Goods in Postcolonial Latin America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997). On internationalization:
106. James Watson, ed., Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998);
107. Stephen Rees, American Films Abroad: Hollywood's Domination of the World 's Movie Screens from the 1890s to the Present ( Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997);
108. Theodore von Laue, The World Revolution of Westernization (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).