The Politics of Consumption and Material Culture
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Transatlantisch importierte Populärkultur, in erster Linie solche, die vom Establishment aller Arten bekämpft wurde, spielte eine hilfreiche Rolle bei Prozessen der Demokratisierung in den Nachkriegsjahrzehnten. Das lag nicht an... more
Retail stores in early Virginia were semi-public arenas where rich and poor, men and women, enslaved and free all purchased in the new consumerism of the late eighteenth-century. This paper elaborates those spaces where that trianglation... more
Becca, an enslaved woman, was found guilty of theft in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1807. Her story sets the scene for a new understanding of stores in early Vir-ginia. Becca had entered a well-appointed store and asked to look at some lace... more