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American Consumer Culture, Fall 2007
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This class examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the ‰ŰĎgood life‰Ű 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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Business
Creative and Applied Arts
Economics
History
Marketing
Social and Behavioral Sciences
U.S. History
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jacobs, Meg
Date Added:
01/01/2007
U.S. History
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 U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.Senior Contributing AuthorsP. Scott Corbett, Ventura CollegeVolker Janssen, California State University, FullertonJohn M. Lund, Keene State CollegeTodd Pfannestiel, Clarion UniversityPaul Vickery, Oral Roberts UniversitySylvie Waskiewicz

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History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Rice University
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OpenStax College
Date Added:
06/04/2021
U.S. History, The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900, Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
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By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify how each class of Americans—working class, middle class, and upper class—responded to the challenges associated with urban lifeExplain the process of machine politics and how it brought relief to working-class Americans

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U.S. History
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Module
Author:
OpenStax
Date Added:
06/04/2021