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Charlotte Sussman - Consuming Anxieties - 9780804731034 - V9780804731034
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Consuming Anxieties

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Description for Consuming Anxieties hardcover. Boycotts have a closely connected history to the growth of the British Empire and the birth of a consumer society. This volume examines the history of consumer protests in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly in anticolonial struggles. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.

Boycotts are so commonplace these days that one hardly notices them, and yet they have a fascinating history, one closely connected to the growth of the British Empire and the birth of a consumer society. Consuming Anxieties asks why this mode of political protest has proved so influential over the past two hundred years, and why it was particularly useful in anticolonial struggles. It answers these questions through new readings of literary works by Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, and others, as well as through investigations of eighteenth-century political and economic discourses connected with consumer culture and colonialism.

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The book is in two parts. The first three chapters deal with the history of consumer protests against colonialism and imperialism, notably the uses of the tactic in Ireland early in the eighteenth century and the mid-century anxiety over colonial products in English domestic life. The last three chapters concentrate on the role of commodity culture and consumer protest in the British debates over Caribbean slavery. Although its roots in earlier anticolonial protests are not always recognized, antislavery activists inherited and expertly manipulated a set of tactics developed in previous contests.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804731034
SKU
V9780804731034
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Ref
99-50

About Charlotte Sussman
Charlotte Sussman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Reviews for Consuming Anxieties
"Consuming Anxieties is an absorbing book that deserves to be read and reread. . . . Sussman brilliantly recreates the cultural milieu in which sentimental abolitionism took root."—International History Review "Sussman. . . . pulls off the difficult task of writing a truly interdisciplinary study. . . .—Slavery and Abolition "[An] interesting and well-written book."—Slavery and Abolition "An illuminating study."—Albion ... Read more

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