Consumerism in World History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consumerism in World History write by Peter N. Stearns. This book was released on 2001. Consumerism in World History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The desire to acquire luxury goods and leisure services is a basic force in modern life.Consumerism in World Historyexplores both the historical origins and worldwide appeal of this relatively modern phenomenon. Consumerism in World Historydraws on recent research of the consumer experience in the West and Japan, while also examining societies such as Africa, less renowned for consumerism. Raising new issues about change and continuity in Western history and discussing specific societies in World history, the book presents: * Human societies before consumerism and how they have changed * The origins of modern consumerism in western society * Consumerism in Russia, East Asia, Africa and the Islamic Middle East * Contemporary issues and evaluations of consumerism This ground-breaking study is a fascinating exploration of the world in which we live and is compulsive reading for the general reader and students alike.
The Industrial Revolution in World History
The Industrial Revolution in World History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Industrial Revolution in World History write by Peter N Stearns. This book was released on 2012-08-07. The Industrial Revolution in World History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The industrial revolution was the single most important development in human history over the past three centuries, and it continues to shape the contemporary world. With new methods and organizations for producing goods, industrialization altered where people live, how they play, and even how they define political issues. By exploring the ways the industrial revolution reshaped world history, this book offers a unique look into the international factors that started the industrial revolution and its global spread and impact. In the fourth edition, noted historian Peter N. Stearns continues his global analysis of the industrial revolution with new discussions of industrialization outside of the West, including the study of India, the Middle East, and China. In addition, an expanded conclusion contains an examination of the changing contexts of industrialization. The Industrial Revolution in World History is essential for students of world history and economics, as well as for those seeking to know more about the global implications of what is arguably the defining socioeconomic event of modern times.
Tourists of History
Tourists of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tourists of History write by Marita Sturken. This book was released on 2007-11. Tourists of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVStudy of how the memorials created in Oklahoma City and at the World Trade Center site raise questions about the relationship between cultural memory and consumerism./div
Consumer Society in American History
Consumer Society in American History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consumer Society in American History write by Lawrence B. Glickman. This book was released on 1999. Consumer Society in American History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date, spanning the four centuries from the colonial era to the present.
An All-Consuming Century
An All-Consuming Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An All-Consuming Century write by Gary Cross. This book was released on 2000-09-14. An All-Consuming Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer rights movement. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, not only has American consumerism triumphed, there isn't even an "ism" left to challenge it. An All-Consuming Century is a rich history of how market goods came to dominate American life over that remarkable hundred years between 1900 and 2000 and why for the first time in history there are no practical limits to consumerism. By 1930 a distinct consumer society had emerged in the United States in which the taste, speed, control, and comfort of goods offered new meanings of freedom, thus laying the groundwork for a full-scale ideology of consumer's democracy after World War II. From the introduction of Henry Ford's Model T ("so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one") and the innovations in selling that arrived with the department store (window displays, self service, the installment plan) to the development of new arenas for spending (amusement parks, penny arcades, baseball parks, and dance halls), Americans embraced the new culture of commercialism—with reservations. However, Gary Cross shows that even the Depression, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the inflation of the 1970s made Americans more materialistic, opening new channels of desire and offering opportunities for more innovative and aggressive marketing. The conservative upsurge of the 1980s and '90s indulged in its own brand of self-aggrandizement by promoting unrestricted markets. The consumerism of today, thriving and largely unchecked, no longer brings families and communities together; instead, it increasingly divides and isolates Americans. Consumer culture has provided affluent societies with peaceful alternatives to tribalism and class war, Cross writes, and it has fueled extraordinary economic growth. The challenge for the future is to find ways to revive the still valid portion of the culture of constraint and control the overpowering success of the all-consuming twentieth century.
