History and the Study of Consumerism: A Historian of the West Looks to Japan

Beverly Lemire

Chapter 13 in The Historical Consumer, 2012, pp 306-324 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract For generations, histories of the West were infused with assumptions of that region’s exceptionalism — exceptionalism in culture, politics and economy. This powerful underlying narrative shaped analyses and directed research, while many unwarrantable claims remained untested for generations. As a hypothesis, it was a by-product of the unprecedented imperial expansion of Western powers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with exceptional industrial growth, both concurrent with the expansion of the Western academy. Disciplines such as history developed within this political milieu. And academics commonly echoed the dominant discourses of their age.

Keywords: Cotton Textile; Eighteenth Century; Consumer Society; Global History; Consumer Practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230367340_13

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