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American dreams in Mississippi : consumers, poverty & culture, 1830-1998

Author: Ted Ownby
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Ownby, Ted.
American dreams in Mississippi.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1999
(OCoLC)651842557
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ted Ownby
ISBN: 0807824798 9780807824795 0807848069 9780807848067
OCLC Number: 39692178
Description: 228 p. : ill. ; 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.
Responsibility: Ted Ownby.

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