{"product_id":"consuming-empire-in-u-s-fiction-1865-1930-9781399505710","title":"Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction 1865 1930","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraces authors' attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commodities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By examining the cultural lives of goods such as cotton, coal, fur (and others), Wayne's fascinating study reveals how American writers critiqued U.S. imperial ambitions in the decades after the Civil War. The book makes a significant contribution not only to American literary studies but also to strands of postcolonial and ecocritical scholarship devoted to cultures of extraction, resource narratives and exploitative histories.\" -Sin ad Moynihan, University of Exeter","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407769346391,"sku":"9781399505710","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399505710.jpg?v=1730500476","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/consuming-empire-in-u-s-fiction-1865-1930-9781399505710","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}