History

none1noThis article summarizes the main historical changes in the history of consumer cultures since the 18th century. The following topics are discussed: the decline of the sumptuary laws and the beginning of a modern consumption dynamic; imperial commercial networks and the first globalisation of consumption; social classes and consumer cultures between 19th and 20th century; changes of the commercial distribution in the 20th century; fascism, communism and the crisis of the individual consumption in the inter-war period; the golden age of mass consumption in the 1950s and 1960s; consumption identities in the age of the postmodernist and postfordist society.Si tratta di un'opera collettanea in tre volumi sulle culture del consumo che costituisce un punto di riferimento per la ricerca a livello globale. E' il risultato di sei anni di lavoro e della cooperazione di decine di studiosi provenienti da tutto il mondo.openP. CapuzzoP. Capuzz