Syllabus/achievement requirements

The articles and chapters marked With # will be available at Kopiutsalget/Akademika as a compendium.

  1. Modernity

 

Introduction: Why Study Consumerism as Historians?

Frank Trentmann, in Frank Trentmann (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Oxford: OUP, 2012), pp. 1-19. Can be found online: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561216.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199561216-e-1

 

Consumer activism

#-Lawrence B. Glickman, Buying Power. A History of Consumer Activism in America, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2009. chapter 2, Buy for the Sake of the Slave, pp. 61-89, chapter 3, Rebel Consumerism, pp. 93-114.

 

#-Kathryn Kish Sklar, “The Consumers’ White Label Campaign of the National Consumers’ League 1898-1918”, in: Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, Matthias Judt, Getting and Spending. European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 17-35.

 

Affluence and the birth of the department store

#-Erika Diane Rappaport, Shopping for Pleasure. Women in the Making of London’s West End, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000. chapter 2, The Trials of Consumption, pp. 48-73.

 

- Lenz, Thomas and Rachel MagShamhráin. “Inventing Diseases: Kleptomania, Agoraphobia and Resistance to Modernity.” Society 49 (2012): 279–83. (the text is an UiO online resource: http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS2317/v18/pensumliste/index.html)

 

Food

-Donna R. Gabaccia, ‘Food, Mobility, and World History,’ in Jeffrey M. Pilcher (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Food History (New York: UOP, 2012), pp. 305–23

http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199729937.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199729937-e-17)

 

#-Maren M?hring, ‘Food for Thought: Rethinking the History of Migration to West Germany Through the Migrant Restaurant Business,’ Journal of Contemporary History 49,1 (2014), pp. 209–27.

 

 

Wine
-Alessandro Stanziani, “Information, Quality and Legal Rules: Wine Adulteration in 19th century France”, Business History, 51, 2, 2009, pp. 268-291. Can be found online.

#-Kolleen M. Guy, When Champagne Became French. Wine and the Making of a National Identity, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. chapter 5, pp. 118-157.

 

 

 

The irresistible empire of persuasion

#-Charles Mc Govern, “Consumption and Citizenship in the United States, 1900-1940”, Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, Matthias Judt, Getting and Spending. European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 37-58.

-Clark Eric Hultkuist, “Americans in Paris. The J. Walter Thompson Company in France, 1927-1968”, Enterprise and Society, 4: 3, 2003, pp. 471-501. Can be found online.

 

Consumption under Fascism

S. Jonathan Wiesen, “National Socialism and Consumption,” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, ed. by Frank Trentmann (Oxford: OUP, 2012), pp. 433-450. The book is available online.

- primary sources will be made available to the students via Fronter

 

 

  1. Postmodernity

 

 

Consumption behind the Iron Curtain/in the Soviet regime

#- Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger, ‘Introduction,’ in Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger (eds.), Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe (Oxford: OUP, 2012), pp. 3-19.

- primary sources will be made available to the students via Fronter

 

 

Consumption in the Cold War

#-Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe (Cambridge: CUP, 2005), pp. 1-14.

-Jan Logemann, Different Paths to Mass Consumption: Consumer Credit in the United States and West Germany during the 1950s and '60s, Journal of Social History 41,3 (2008), pp. 525-559. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/235842)

 

 

Waste

#-Susan Strasser, Waste and Want. A Social History of Trash, New York: Holt, chapter 7, Good Riddance, pp. 265-293.

#-Jennifer Le Zotte, “Chapter 1. Thrift Stores and the Gilded Age Shopper”, From Goodwill to Grunge. A History of Second Hand Styles and Alternatives Economies, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017, pp. 17-51.

 

Critiques from within

#-Daniel Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence. Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004.  Chapter 2, Celebratory Emigres; Chapter 4, Critique from Within, pp. 101-128.

 Elizabeth McAlister, ‘Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies,’ Anthropological Quarterly 85,2 (2012), pp. 457-486 https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/div2facpubs/115/)

 

 

- primary sources will be made available on Fronter

 

Conclusion and How to write a term paper

-Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History (8th edition Boston et al.: Bedford BKS St Martin's, 2015). Whole book for the students to buy

 

 

 

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