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21H.206 American Consumer Culture | History
This class examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the "good life" through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. We will explore how such things as department stores, nationally advertised brand-name goods, mass-produced cars, and suburbs transformed the American economy, society, and politics. The course is organized both thematically and chronologically. Each period deals with a new development in the history of consumer culture. Throughout we explore both celebrations and critiques of mass consumption and abundance.
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- Material Type:
- Online Course
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- May 12, 2016
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- September 24, 2020
- Author:
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Barbra Bied Sperling
- Primary Audience:
- College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
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- Language:
- English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
