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WEEK #TOPICSKEY DATES
1Introduction to the world of goods
Part I: the rise of a mass market at the turn of the century
2Downtown shopping
3Leisure timePaper proposal due
4The business of consumption
Part II: making a middle-class society in interwar America
6No class: meet to discuss papers
5Roaring twentiesDetailed bibliography due
7Advertising the American dreamOne best source due
8Abundance and its critics (I)
Part III: mass culture in postwar America
9Status seeking in the suburbsIntroduction and outline due
10Age of television
Part IV: conspicuous consumption at century's end
11McDonalds, microwaves, and the mega-richRough draft due
12Abundance and its critics (II)
13E-bay and beyondFinal paper due

 








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