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The marketplace of revolution : how consumer politics shaped American independence /
"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 org...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The revolutionary politics of consumption
- Tale of the hospitable consumer: a revolutionary argument
- pt. 1. An empire of goods
- Inventories of desire: the evidence
- Consumers' new world: the unintended consequences of commercial success
- Vade mecum: the great chain of colonial acquisition
- The corrosive logic of choice: living with goods
- pt. 2. "A commercial plan form political salvation"
- Strength out of dependence: strategies of consumer resistance in an empire of goods
- Making lists- taking names: the politicization of everyday life
- Bonfires of tea: the final act.