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Full Title

A Destiny of Choice?

Author(s)

Blanke, Steigerwald, Hoganson, Matt, McCrossen, Tang, Borg, Haker, May

Edition
ISBN

9780739172193

Publisher

Bloomsbury USA

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.