Syllabus/achievement requirements

Required and recommended readings:

*Ledol Calder, ¡°Saving and Spending¡±, in: Frank Trentmann ed., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 348-375. 

*Robert Fitzgerald, ¡°Market and Distribution¡±, in: G. Jones, J. Zeitlin ed., The Oxford Handbook of Business History, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bernard London, Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence, 1932.

Georg Simmel, ¡°Fashion¡±, The American Journal of Sociology, 62, 6, May 1957, pp. 541-558

*Joshua Goldstein, ¡°Waste¡±, in: Frank Trentmann ed., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 326-347.

*Susan Strasser, Waste and Want. A Social History of Trash, New York: Holt, chapter 7, Good Riddance, pp. 265-293.

*Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Oxford, Oxford University Press (reissued paperback of 1999), pp. 13-38.

*Naomi Klein, No Logo. Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, New York, Knopf, 1999. Chapter 1, pp. 4-26.

*Michael Miller, The Bon March¨¦, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1981. Chapter 1, New Stores, pp. 19-47, chapter 2, The Grands Magasins, pp. 48-72; photos pp. 148-; chapter 6, Selling the Store, pp. 190-230; conclusion, pp. 231-240.

*Erika Diane Rappaport, Shopping for Pleasure. Women in the Making of London¡¯s West End, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000. chapter 2, The Trials of Consumption, pp. 48-73.

*Lawrence B. Glickman, Buying Power. A History of Consumer Activism in America, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2009. chapter 2, Buy for the Sake of the Slave, pp. 61-89, chapter 3, Rebel Consumerism, pp. 93-114.

*Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel, ¡°Woman and the Ethics of Consumption in France at the Turn of the 20th Century¡±, in: Frank Trentmann ed., The Making of the Consumer. Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World, Oxford, Berg, 2006, pp. 81-98.

*Rosalind H. Williams, Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century France, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1982. chapter 7, Charles Gide, pp. 276-321.

*Ellen Furlough, Carl Strikwerda ed., Consumers against Capitalism. Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840-1990, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, 199, chapter 1 , pp. 1-53. (It is also highly recommended that you read pp. 54-91 which will be available in the Fronter room).

Clark Eric Hultquist, ¡°Americans in Paris. The J. Walter Thompson Company in France, 1927-1968¡±, Enterprise and Society, 4: 3, 2003,pp. 471-501.

*William Leach, Land of Desire. Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, New York, Vintage books, 1993. Chapter 10, Sell them their Dreams, pp. 298-322.

*Charles Mc Govern, ¡°Consumption and Citizenship in the United States, 1900-1940¡±, Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, Matthias Judt, Getting and Spending. European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 37-58.

*Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers¡¯ Republic. The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, New York, Vintage Books, 2003. Chap. 1 Depression: Rise of the Citizen Consumer, pp. 18-61.

*Uwe Spiekermann, ¡°From Neighbour to Consumer. The Transformation of Retailer-Consumer Relationships in Twentieth-Century Germany¡±, in: Frank Trentmann ed., The Making of the Consumer. Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World, Oxford, Berg, 2006, pp. 147-174.

*S. Jonathan Wiesen, Creating the Nazi Marketplace, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, chapter 2, pp. 63-117; chapter 5, pp. 191-230.

Milena Veenis, ¡°Cola in the German Democratic Republic. East German Fantasies on Western Consumption¡±, Enterprise and Society, 12, 3, Sept. 2011, pp. 489-524.

*Cheryl Greenberg, ¡°Don¡¯t Buy Where you Can¡¯t Work¡±, in: Lawrence Glickman, Consumer Society in American History, A Reader, Ithaca, Cornell Universty Press, 1999, pp. 241-273.

*Robert E. Weems, ¡°The Revolution Will be Marketed. American Corporations and Black Consumers During the 1960s¡±, in: Lawrence Glickman, Consumer Society in American History, A Reader, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1999, pp. 316-325.

Malia McAndrew, ¡°A Twentieth-Century Triangle Trade: Selling Black Beauty at Home and Abroad, 1945-1965¡±, Enterprise and History, 2010, 17, 4, pp. 784-810.

*Avner Offer, The Challenge of Affluence, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. Chapter 1-2, pp. 1-38; Chapter 12, Inequality Hurts, pp. 270-301.

*Daniel Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence. Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Chapter 2, Celebratory Emigres; Chapter 4, Critique from Within, pp. 101-128.

Stefan Schwarzkopf, ¡°The Consumer Jury: Historical Origins and Social Consequences of a Marketing Myth¡±, CHARM papers, 2009, pp. 238-253.