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Undergraduates and nonacademics should have no trouble making sense of the arguments. . . .Most of the essays explain how consumers acted through goods to improve their lives and make sense of the world. * Journal of American History * This wide-ranging collection of original, highly readable, and historically precise studies of American encounters with goods and media offers us fresh ways of understanding consumer agency in 20th-century America. -- Gary Cross, distinguished professor of modern history, Pennsylvania State University This collection points us toward the next generation of scholarship in American consumer history. By drawing from a diverse array of approaches-in particular, intellectual history, the history of emotions, borderlands studies, cultural studies, and global history-this volume shows the prospects for consumer history as a way of both advancing unique perspectives and synthesizing and consolidating emerging approaches. By highlighting the issue and the problem of "agency" the contributors to this volume have offered a wide-ranging meditation on the meaning of consumption in history. -- Lawrence B. Glickman, University of South Carolina
In the twentieth century, Americans thought of the United States as a land of opportunity and equality. To what extent and for whom this was true was, of course, a matter of debate, however especially during the Cold War, many Americans clung to the patriotic conviction that America was the land of the free. At the same time, another national ideal emerged that was far less contentious, that arguably came to subsume the ideals of freedom, opportunity, and equality, and that eventually embodied an unspoken consensus about what constitutes the good society in a postmodern setting. This was the ideal of choice, broadly understood as the proposition that the good society provides individuals with the power to shape the contours of their lives in ways that suit their personal interests, idiosyncrasies, and tastes. By the closing decades of the century, Americans were widely agreed that theirs was-or at least should be-the land of choice. In A Destiny of Choice?, David Blanke and David Steigerwald bring together important scholarship on the tension between two leading interpretations of modern American consumer culture. That modern consumerism reflects the social, cultural, economic, and political changes that accompanied the country's transition from a local, producer economy dominated by limited choices and restricted credit to a national consumer marketplace based on the individual selection of mass-produced, mass-advertised, and mass-distributed goods. This debate is central to the economic difficulties seen in the United States today.
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