The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American IndependenceOxford University Press, 26 Feb 2004 - 400 halaman The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of galvanizing resistance. In a richly interdisciplinary narrative that weaves insights into a changing material culture with analysis of popular political protests, Breen shows how virtual strangers managed to communicate a sense of trust that effectively united men and women long before they had established a nation of their own. The Marketplace of Revolution argues that the colonists' shared experience as consumers in a new imperial economy afforded them the cultural resources that they needed to develop a radical strategy of political protest--the consumer boycott. Never before had a mass political movement organized itself around disruption of the marketplace. As Breen demonstrates, often through anecdotes about obscure Americans, communal rituals of shared sacrifice provided an effective means to educate and energize a dispersed populace. The boycott movement--the signature of American resistance--invited colonists traditionally excluded from formal political processes to voice their opinions about liberty and rights within a revolutionary marketplace, an open, raucous public forum that defined itself around subscription lists passed door-to-door, voluntary associations, street protests, destruction of imported British goods, and incendiary newspaper exchanges. Within these exchanges was born a new form of politics in which ordinary man and women--precisely the people most often overlooked in traditional accounts of revolution--experienced an exhilarating surge of empowerment. Breen recreates an "empire of goods" that transformed everyday life during the mid-eighteenth century. Imported manufactured items flooded into the homes of colonists from New Hampshire to Georgia. The Marketplace of Revolution explains how at a moment of political crisis Americans gave political meaning to the pursuit of happiness and learned how to make goods speak to power. |
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... force than to endure further political oppression. Mobilization on this level did not come easy. Neither luck nor providence had much to do with the story. Over a decade of continuous experimentation, American colonists discovered a ...
... force than to endure further political oppression. Mobilization on this level did not come easy. Neither luck nor providence had much to do with the story. Over a decade of continuous experimentation, American colonists discovered a ...
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... force of human agency—real people making choices about the politics of empire—in shaping the flow of activities that we lump together as the coming of the American Revolution. What gave the American Revolution distinctive shape was an ...
... force of human agency—real people making choices about the politics of empire—in shaping the flow of activities that we lump together as the coming of the American Revolution. What gave the American Revolution distinctive shape was an ...
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... force them, that ever denied themselves what their circumstances would afford, and custom and habit prompted them to desire.”4 But that is precisely what the colonists did. They made goods speak to power in ways that mid-century ...
... force them, that ever denied themselves what their circumstances would afford, and custom and habit prompted them to desire.”4 But that is precisely what the colonists did. They made goods speak to power in ways that mid-century ...
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... force among them capable of supporting them, that, at worst, the Colonies in general would never make a common cause with this province, and that the issue would prove, in a few months, order, tranquility and submission.”2 On both sides ...
... force among them capable of supporting them, that, at worst, the Colonies in general would never make a common cause with this province, and that the issue would prove, in a few months, order, tranquility and submission.”2 On both sides ...
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... force of this analysis. In a pamphlet intended to persuade the British government to retain Canada following the Seven Years' War, Benjamin Franklin sounded a lot like Burnaby. And well he might. At the Albany Congress of 1754 Franklin ...
... force of this analysis. In a pamphlet intended to persuade the British government to retain Canada following the Seven Years' War, Benjamin Franklin sounded a lot like Burnaby. And well he might. At the Albany Congress of 1754 Franklin ...
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