Alison Hulme

A brief history of thrift

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores à â Ë thriftà â â through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, and via key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles, and Henry Thoreau. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781526128836
• ISBN-10: 1526128837
• Artikelnr.: 55393160

Autorenporträt

Alison Hulme lectures in International Development at the University of Northampton

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Religious thrift: Puritans
Quakers and Benjamin Franklin 2 Individualist thrift: Victorians
Individualism
and Samuel Smiles 3 Spiritual thrift: Simplicity
anti-consumption and Henry Thoreaux 4 Nationalist thrift: revolution
depression and world wars 5 Consumer thrift: race
responsibility and rights 6 Ecological thrift: frugality
nature and anti-Capitalism 7 Ideological thrift: One Nation Tories and the current Age-of-Austerity Conclusion Index