Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption, and the Search for American Identity (Columbia History of Urban Life)

By Andrew R. Heinze

Book Overview

This is the first large-scale analysis of immigrant life in America to focus on habits of consumption. Hienze relies on primary sources to show how Jews responded to the prospect of mass consumption... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231068522
• ISBN13: 9780231068529
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.9" x 6.0"