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Pocketbook politics: economic citizenship in twentieth-century America
Meg Jacobs
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Introduction Economic Citizenship in the Twentieth Century (page 1)
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PART I. THE HIGH COST OF LIVING AND THE RISE OF POCKETBOOK POLITICS, 1900-1930
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Chapter One From the Bargain Basement to the Bargaining Table, 1900-1917 (page 15)
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Chapter Two Business without a Buyer, 1917-1930 (page 53)
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PART II. PURCHASING POWER TO THE PEOPLE, 1930-1940
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Chapter Three The New Deal and the Problem of Prices, 1930-1935 (page 95)
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Chapter Four The New Deal and the Problem of Wages, 1935-1940 (page 136)
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PART III. THE EVILS OF INFLATION IN WAR AND PEACE, 1940-1960
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Chapter Five The Consumer Goes to War, 1940-1946 (page 179)
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Chapter Six Pocketbook Politics in an Age of Inflation, 1946-1960 (page 221)
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Epilogue Back to Bargain Hunting (page 262)
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Notes (page 266)
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Index (page 327)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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TC | 48.2 (Apr. 2007): 424-426 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v048/48.2jacobson.html |
JAH | 92.4 (Mar. 2005): 1476 | http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/92.4/br_86.html |
RAH | 33.3 (2005): 431-438 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/reviews_in_american_history/v033/33.3mittelstadt.html |
Citable Link
Published: 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
- 9780691130415 (paper)
- 9780691086644 (hardcover)
- 9781400843787 (ebook)