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The Business of America - How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend (Hardcover)
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The Business of America - How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend (Hardcover)
Series: Pathways Through the Twenty-First Century
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When President Bush promoted shopping as a patriotic duty, the
American culture of consumption hit a new low. But a quiet
revolution is growing in the developing world and in a new
generation of Americans, fighting the advance of the shopping malls
and the desolation they leave behind.
Written by one of the most insightful critics of American
commercialism, "The Business of America" probes the forces that
have transformed citizens into consumers eager to take as much as
they can from the planet. From on-line shopping to spectator sports
to the cash-and-carry ethos of political campaigns, Saul Landau
decodes the subtle ways in which advertising images tell us to
correct our inadequacies with more things: SUVs, credit cards, air
conditioning, video games.
The winds of change are blowing, Landau shows, from resurgent
student protests for underpaid janitors to the "Group of 21," the
developing countries that stopped the World Trade Organization dead
in its tracks in 2003. Eschewing nostalgia for a simpler time--a
less-interconnected world that can never return-"The Business of
America" shows how we as citizens can regain our identities,
stripping away the plastic overlay of consumerism.
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Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Pathways Through the Twenty-First Century |
Release date: |
June 2004 |
First published: |
2004 |
Authors: |
Saul Landau
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
216 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-94468-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Anthropology >
General
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LSN: |
0-415-94468-6 |
Barcode: |
9780415944687 |
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