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

This startlingly original and highly readable volume adds a new richness and depth to an element of U.S. history that is all too often taken for granted. In Ame

The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and of

A century ago many Americans condemned envy as a destructive emotion and a sin. Today few Americans expect criticism when they express envy, and some commentato

The fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how Amer