Archaeology of Consumer Culture.

By: Mullins, Paul RMaterial type: TextTextSeries: American Experience in Archaeological PerspectivePublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813040363Subject(s): Archaeology and history -- United States | Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History | Material culture -- United States | Materialism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History | Social archaeology -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Archaeology of Consumer CultureDDC classification: 306.4/60973 LOC classification: E161 -- .M85 2011ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cvr -- Table of Contents v -- List of Figures vii -- Foreword ix -- Acknowledgments xiii -- Introduction: Toward a Historical Archaeology of Consumption 1 -- 1 The Faces of Wealth 13 -- 2 Emulation and Desire 42 -- 3 Consuming Morals, Materialism, and Refinement 75 -- 4 Consuming Politics and Identity 105 -- 5 The Materiality of Domesticity and Victorian Marketing 146 -- Conclusion: Archaeologies of Consumption 174 -- References 179 -- Index 209.
Summary: Americans have long identified themselves with material goods. In this study, Paul Mullins sifts through this continent's historical archaeological record to trace the evolution of North American consumer culture.
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Cvr -- Table of Contents v -- List of Figures vii -- Foreword ix -- Acknowledgments xiii -- Introduction: Toward a Historical Archaeology of Consumption 1 -- 1 The Faces of Wealth 13 -- 2 Emulation and Desire 42 -- 3 Consuming Morals, Materialism, and Refinement 75 -- 4 Consuming Politics and Identity 105 -- 5 The Materiality of Domesticity and Victorian Marketing 146 -- Conclusion: Archaeologies of Consumption 174 -- References 179 -- Index 209.

Americans have long identified themselves with material goods. In this study, Paul Mullins sifts through this continent's historical archaeological record to trace the evolution of North American consumer culture.

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