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100 1 $aBreen, T. H.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80023230
245 14 $aThe marketplace of revolution :$bhow consumer politics shaped American independence /$cT.H. Breen.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2004.
300 $axviii, 380 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [333]-371) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: The Revolutionary Politics of Consumption --$g1.$tTale of the Hospitable Consumer: A Revolutionary Argument --$gPt. 1.$tAn Empire of Goods --$g2.$tInventories of Desire: The Evidence --$g3.$tConsumers' New World: The Unintended Consequences of Commercial Success --$g4.$tVade Mecum: The Great Chain of Colonial Acquisition --$g5.$tThe Corrosive Logic of Choice: Living with Goods --$gPt. 2.$tA Commercial Plan for Political Salvation --$g6.$tStrength out of Dependence: Strategies of Consumer Resistance in an Empire of Goods --$g7.$tMaking Lists - Taking Names: The Politicization of Everyday Life --$g8.$tBonfires of Tea: The Final Act.
520 1 $a"The Marketplace of Revolution argues that the colonists' shared experience as consumers in a new imperial economy afforded them the cultural resources that they needed to develop a radical strategy of political protest - the consumer boycott. Never before had a mass political movement organized itself around disruption of the marketplace. As Breen demonstrates, often through anecdotes about obscure Americans, communal rituals of shared sacrifice provided an effective means to educate and energize a dispersed populace. The boycott movement - the signature of American resistance - invited colonists traditionally excluded from formal political processes to voice their opinions about liberty and rights within a revolutionary marketplace, an open, raucous public forum that defined itself around subscription lists passed door-to-door, voluntary associations, street protests, destruction of imported British goods, and incendiary newspaper exchanges. Within these exchanges was born a new form of politics in which ordinary men and women - precisely the people most often overlooked in traditional accounts of revolution - experienced an exhilarating surge of empowerment." "Breen re-creates an "empire of goods" that transformed everyday life during the mid-eighteenth century. Imported manufactured items flooded into the homes of colonists from New Hampshire to Georgia. The Marketplace of Revolution explains how at a moment of political crisis Americans gave political meaning to the pursuit of happiness and learned how to make goods speak to power."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aConsumption (Economics)$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xCauses.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140149
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xEconomic aspects.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003023138.html
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