| Description |
228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Men buying cloth; the limits of shopping among nineteenth-century farmers -- Wealthy men, wealthy women, and slaves as Antebellum consumers -- You don't want nothing; goods, plantation labor, and the meanings of freedom, 1865-1920s -- New stores and new shoppers, 1880-1930 -- Gladys Smith, Dorothy Dickins, and consumer ideals for women, 1920s-1950s -- Goods, migration, and the blues, 1920s-1950s -- Percy, Wright, Faulkner, and Welty; Montgomery Ward Snopes and the intellectual challenges of consumption -- White Christmas; boycotts and the meanings of shopping, 1960-1990. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-215) and index. |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- Mississippi -- History.
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Rural poor -- Mississippi -- History.
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African American consumers -- Mississippi -- History.
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Consumers -- Mississippi -- History.
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Mississippi -- Economic conditions.
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| ISBN |
0807824798 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780807824795 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807848069 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780807848067 paperback alkaline paper |
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