Luxurious Citizens

Author	: Joanna Cohen
Publisher	: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages	: 296
Release	: 2017-02-20
ISBN-10	: 9780812248920
ISBN-13	: 0812248929
Rating	: 4/5 (929 Downloads)

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Download or read book Luxurious Citizens written by Joanna Cohen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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