knowledge, power and identity in the modern world /
edited by Frank Trentmann
New York :
Berg,
2006
xii, 318 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Cultures of consumption series
Includes index
Includes bibliographical references and index
Knowing consumers : histories, identities, practices / Frank Trentmann -- The problematic status of the consumer in orthodox economic thought / Donald Winch -- From users to consumers : water politics in nineteenth-century London / Frank Trentmann and Vanessa Taylor -- Women and the ethics of consumption in France at the turn of the twentieth century : the Ligue Sociale d'Acheteurs / Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel -- Legal constructions of the consumer / Michelle Everson -- Packaging China : foreign articles and dangerous tastes in the mid-Victorian tea party / Erika Rappaport -- From neighbour to consumer : the transformation of retailer-consumer relationships in twentieth-century Germany / Uwe Spiekermann -- Consumers with Chinese characteristics? : local customers in British and Japanese multinational stores in contemporary China / Jos Gamble -- A becoming subject : consumer socialization in the mediated marketplace / Stephen Kline -- Competing domains : democratic subjects and consuming subjects in Britain and the United States since 1945 / Frank Mort -- From stigma to cult : changing meanings in East German consumer culture / Ina Merkel -- The limits of culture: political economy and the anthropology of consumption / James G. Carrier -- Addressing the consumer / Ben Fine
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'The Making of the Consumer' follows the evolution of the consumer in the modern world, ranging from imperial Britain to contemporary Papua New Guinea, and from the European Union to China