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Americans have always had a love-hate relationship with possessions. Early Americans suspected luxuries as a corrupting force that would lead to an aristocracy. In For the Love of Goods, Phyllis Whitman Hunter demonstrates how elite Americans not only became infatuated with their belongings, but also avidly pursued consumption to shape their world and proclaim their success.In eighteenth-century New England harbor towns, the commercial gentry led their communities into full participation in a flourishing Anglo-American consumer culture. Affluent traders constructed roads, wharves, and warehouses, built mansions and assembly buildings, adopted new forms of sociability, and fostered the rise of the public sphere. Using case studies of influential merchant families, Hunter brings alive the process by which Boston and Salem evolved from Puritan towns dominated by families of English origin to Georgian provincial cities open to a diversity of religious affiliations and European ethnicities.Hunter then explores how revolutionary politics overturned polite society and transformed the meanings of possessions. Patriots threw tea to the fish in Boston Harbor, donned homespun at Harvard commencements, and transformed a silver punch bowl into an icon of liberty. The wealthy either espoused republican values and muted their material displays or fled to exile. For the Love of Goods reveals a critical link in the complex relationship between capitalism and culture: the process by which material goods become symbols of profound social and cultural significance.

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• Plný název: Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World
• Podnázev: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670-1780
• Autor: Phyllis Whitman Hunter
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 240
• EAN: 9780801438554
• ISBN: 0801438551
• ID: 04706230
• Nakladatelství: Cornell University Press
• Hmotnost: 504 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Datum vydání: 13. June 2001

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