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Buying Happiness - The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada (Paperback) Loot Price: R839
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Buying Happiness - The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada (Paperback): Bettina Liverant

Buying Happiness - The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada (Paperback)

Bettina Liverant

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The idea of Canada as a consumer society was largely absent before 1890 but familiar by the mid-1960s. This change required more than rising incomes and greater impulses to buy; it involved the creation of new concepts. Buying Happiness explores the ways that key public thinkers represented, conceptualized, and institutionalized new ideas about consumption. Liverant's fresh approach connects the emergence and diffusion of these ideas with changes in political processes and social policy. As the figure of "the consumer" moved from the margins to the centre of social, cultural, and political analysis, the values and concepts associated with consumerism were woven into the Canadian social imagination.

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Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
Country of origin: Canada
Release date: November 2018
First published: 2018
Authors: Bettina Liverant
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-7748-3514-5
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Consumer issues
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LSN: 0-7748-3514-1
Barcode: 9780774835145

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