Of consuming interests : the style of life in the eighteenth century

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Of consuming interests : the style of life in the eighteenth century

edited by Cary Carson, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert

(Perspectives on the American Revolution)

Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1994

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This collection examines 18th-century material culture. Through a dissection of colonial manners, goods and social institutions, it traces the rise of America's aggressive bourgeois consumerism. The essays touch on fashion, home furnishings, architecture, advertising, sports and shopping.

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