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The Marketplace of Revolution. How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence.
T. H. Breen
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Description for The Marketplace of Revolution. How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence.
Paperback. A new interpretation about the coming of the American Revolution, Breen focuses on how the American colonists accumulated consumer goods from England. Num Pages: 400 pages, 44 halftones & line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 578.
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of galvanizing resistance. In a richly interdisciplinary narrative that weaves insights into a changing material culture with analysis of popular political protests, Breen shows how virtual strangers managed to communicate a sense of trust that effectively united men and women long before they had established a nation of their own. The Marketplace of Revolution argues that ... Read more
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of galvanizing resistance. In a richly interdisciplinary narrative that weaves insights into a changing material culture with analysis of popular political protests, Breen shows how virtual strangers managed to communicate a sense of trust that effectively united men and women long before they had established a nation of their own. The Marketplace of Revolution argues that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195181319
SKU
V9780195181319
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About T. H. Breen
T.H. Breen is William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. An authority on the culture and politics of the early Atlantic World, he has written six major books, including Tobacco Culture and Imagining the Past.
Reviews for The Marketplace of Revolution. How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence.
... raise[s] important questions about the politics of consumption in the early modern era, adding a valuable dimension to what has proved one of the liveliest historical fields in the past twenty years.
Times Literary Supplement
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