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Consumer Culture Reborn focuses on consumption as the point at which economy and culture combine. The book draws the often polarised discourses of political economy and cultural studies closer together in a historical context as a means of understanding our social situations as we approach the end of the millenium. Taking as its central theme the ability of the capitalist mode of production to transform the material and social world which sustains it, the book focuses on some of the ways in which this transformational impulse has altered the means by which ordinary people reproduce their life and their patterns of life. Neither a history book, nor simply a book of theory, Consumer Culture Reborn fuses elements of economic, social and cultural theory in an historical perspective.

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Preface: The soul of things, Part I Preliminaries: perspectives on capital, consumption and culture, Part II The social transformations of capital, Bibliography, Index

Consumer Culture Reborn

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 7 January 1993
      ISBN-13 9780415084147
      978-0415084147
      ISBN-10 0415084148
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      Business, Finance & Law Macroeconomics Microeconomics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Consumer Culture Reborn focuses on consumption as the point at which economy and culture combine. The book draws the often polarised discourses of political economy and cultural studies closer together in a historical context as a means of understanding our social situations as we approach the end of the millenium. Taking as its central theme the ability of the capitalist mode of production to transform the material and social world which sustains it, the book focuses on some of the ways in which this transformational impulse has altered the means by which ordinary people reproduce their life and their patterns of life. Neither a history book, nor simply a book of theory, Consumer Culture Reborn fuses elements of economic, social and cultural theory in an historical perspective.

      Table of Contents
      Preface: The soul of things, Part I Preliminaries: perspectives on capital, consumption and culture, Part II The social transformations of capital, Bibliography, Index

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