Alison Hulme

A brief history of thrift (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book surveys 'thrift' through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, focussing in on key moments such as the early Puritans and Post-war rationing, and key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Henry Thoreau. The relationships between thrift and frugality, mindfulness, sustainability, and alternative consumption practices are explained, and connections made between myriad conceptions of thrift and contemporary concerns for how consumer cultures impact scarce resources, wealth distribution, and the Anthropocene. Ultimately, the book returns the reader to an understanding of thrift as it was originally used - to 'thrive' - and attempts to re-cast thrift in more collective, economically egalitarian terms, reclaiming it as a genuinely resistant practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526128850
• Artikelnr.: 57471581

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