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Author Hulme, Alison, author.
Title A brief history of thrift / Alison Hulme.
Publisher Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Copyright date ©2019



Descript 1 online resource (xi, 140 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).
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Contents Introduction --1. Towards a theory of thrift --2. Religious thrift - Puritans, Quakers and Methodists --3. Individualist thrift: Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Victorian moralism --4. Spiritual thrift: simplicity, sensuality and politics in Henry Thoreau --5. Nationalist thrift: making do, rationing and nostalgic austerity --6. Consumer thrift: Keynes, consumer rights and the new thrifty consumers --7. Ecological thrift: frugality, de-growth and voluntary simplicity --Conclusion: Thoreau in the city --Afterword --Notes --References --Index.
ISBN 9781526128843 (PDF ebook)
9781526128850 (EPUB ebook)
9781526128836 (hardback)
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Author Hulme, Alison, author.
Subject Thriftiness.
Social history.
Consumption (Economics)
Alt author Manchester University Press, provider, publisher.
Descript 1 online resource (xi, 140 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Note Made available via: manchesterhive.
Contents Introduction --1. Towards a theory of thrift --2. Religious thrift - Puritans, Quakers and Methodists --3. Individualist thrift: Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Victorian moralism --4. Spiritual thrift: simplicity, sensuality and politics in Henry Thoreau --5. Nationalist thrift: making do, rationing and nostalgic austerity --6. Consumer thrift: Keynes, consumer rights and the new thrifty consumers --7. Ecological thrift: frugality, de-growth and voluntary simplicity --Conclusion: Thoreau in the city --Afterword --Notes --References --Index.
ISBN 9781526128843 (PDF ebook)
9781526128850 (EPUB ebook)
9781526128836 (hardback)
Standard no. www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526128843/9781526128843.xml
Author Hulme, Alison, author.
Subject Thriftiness.
Social history.
Consumption (Economics)
Alt author Manchester University Press, provider, publisher.

Subject Thriftiness.
Social history.
Consumption (Economics)
Descript 1 online resource (xi, 140 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Note Made available via: manchesterhive.
Contents Introduction --1. Towards a theory of thrift --2. Religious thrift - Puritans, Quakers and Methodists --3. Individualist thrift: Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Victorian moralism --4. Spiritual thrift: simplicity, sensuality and politics in Henry Thoreau --5. Nationalist thrift: making do, rationing and nostalgic austerity --6. Consumer thrift: Keynes, consumer rights and the new thrifty consumers --7. Ecological thrift: frugality, de-growth and voluntary simplicity --Conclusion: Thoreau in the city --Afterword --Notes --References --Index.
Alt author Manchester University Press, provider, publisher.
ISBN 9781526128843 (PDF ebook)
9781526128850 (EPUB ebook)
9781526128836 (hardback)
Standard no. www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526128843/9781526128843.xml

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