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Consuming visions: Accumulation and display of goods in America, 1880-1920 (A Winterthur book)

by Simon J. Bronner

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An examination of the consumer way of life in America as it unfolded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It traces how Americans came to value the pursuit of status objects and to rely on accumulating goods to measure cultural identity.

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