Cohen, Joanna (Author)
University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition Details: Book Series: America in the Nineteenth Century
Physical Details: 296 pp., figures, notes, index
Language: English
Luxurious Citizens traces the ways in which Americans tied consumer desire to the national interest between 1789 and 1865 and reveals how the nation transformed individual desires for goods into an index of civic worth, placing unbridled consumption at the heart of their modern political economy. (Worldcat)
...MoreReview Lindsay Schakenbach Regele (Summer 2017) Review of "Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America". Business History Review (pp. 414-416).
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