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Wanting and having

by Peter Gurney

Consumption (economics)Great britain, social conditionsGreat britain, economic conditions, 19th centuryHistory

Argues that the rise of capitalist consumerism in 19th-century England was not a neutral and progressive transformation but involved heated political contests based on competing visions of economy and society.

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