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American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998
Ted Ownby
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Paperback. This study demonstrates the important roles that consumer goods and shopping have played in the development of class, race and gender relations in Mississippi from the antebellum era to the 1990s. It uses sources as diverse as store ledgers, blues lyrics, and the writings of William Faulkner. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 illustrations, 11 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFC; JFFT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
The dreams of abundance, choice, and novelty that have fueled the growth of consumer culture in the United States would seem to have little place in the history of Mississippi--a state long associated with poverty, inequality, and rural life. But as Ted Ownby demonstrates in this innovative study, consumer goods and shopping have played important roles in the development of class, race, and gender relations in Mississippi from the antebellum era to the present. After examining the general and plantation stores of the nineteenth century, a period when shopping habits were stratified according to racial and class hierarchies, Ownby traces ... Read more
The dreams of abundance, choice, and novelty that have fueled the growth of consumer culture in the United States would seem to have little place in the history of Mississippi--a state long associated with poverty, inequality, and rural life. But as Ted Ownby demonstrates in this innovative study, consumer goods and shopping have played important roles in the development of class, race, and gender relations in Mississippi from the antebellum era to the present. After examining the general and plantation stores of the nineteenth century, a period when shopping habits were stratified according to racial and class hierarchies, Ownby traces ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807848067
SKU
V9780807848067
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About Ted Ownby
Ted Ownby is professor of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi and author of Subduing Satan: Recreation, Religion, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920(UNC Press).
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