The Consumer Society Reader features a range of key works on the nature and evolution of consumer society. Included here is much-discussed work by leading criti

This volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date, spanning the four centuries from the colonial era to th

The Consumer Society Reader is the most substantial collection of classic and contemporary readings on consumption and consumer society for students of cultural

The developed countries, particularly the United States, consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources, yet high and rising levels of consumption do

'Roberta Sassatelli has written a thorough and wide-ranging synthetic account of social scientific research on consumption which will set the standard for the s