Wanting and Having: Popular Politics and Liberal Consumerism in England, 1830-70

by Gurney Peter and Peter Gurney

Nineteenth-century England witnessed the birth of capitalist consumerism. Early department stores, shopping arcades and provision shops of all kinds proliferated from the start of the Victorian period, testimony to greater diffusion of consumer goods. However, while the better off enjoyed having more material things, masses of the population were wanting even the basic necessities of life during the 'Hungry Forties' and well beyond. Based on a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719091454
• ISBN13: 9780719091452
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"