Face Value: The Consumer Revolution and the Colonizing of America

by Cary Carson

Book Overview

The Industrial Revolution was previously understood as having awakened an enormous, unquenchable thirst for material consumption. People up and down the social order had discovered and were indulging in the most extraordinary passion for consumer merchandise in quantities and varieties that had been unimaginable to their parents and grandparents. It was indeed a revolution, but a consumer revolution at the start.

In Face Value,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813939372
• ISBN13: 9780813939377
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher