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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 |
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| 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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