Gurney Wanting and having

Popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830–70
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0182-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Based on a wealth of contemporary evidence and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Wanting and having focuses particularly on the making of the working-class consumer in order to shed new light on key areas of major historical interest, including Chartism, the Anti-Corn Law League, the New Poor Law, popular liberalism and humanitarianism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gurney, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Verhaltensökonomik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. ‘A new order of things’: mapping popular politics onto consumption
2. ‘Rejoicing in potatoes’: the politics of consumption during the ‘Hungry Forties’
3. ‘The Andover Cannibalism’: popular entitlement and the New Poor Law
4. ‘Yours in the cause of Democracy’: democratic discourse and the Chartist challenge
5. ‘Consumers of their own productions’: popular radicalism and consumer organising
6. ‘Please, sir, I want some more’: Dickens on working-class scarcity and middle-class excess
7. ‘The Sublime of the Bazaar’: the religion of free trade and the making of modern consumerism
8. ‘The lion turned into a lamb’: the consumer politics of popular liberalism
Index
Epilogue: ‘The Age of Veneer’: the limits of liberal consumerism

Über Autor(innen)

Gurney Peter:
Peter Gurney teaches British Social History at the University of EssexPeter Gurney teaches British Social History at the University of Essex