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The least things are important in revolutions. 1 Neil McKendrick's original argument about the consumer revolution was profoundly apolitical. Approaching the consumer revolution in much the same way that scholars had analyzed the Industrial Revolution, he and his fellow contributors to The Birth of a Consumer Society were more interested in the economic, social, and cultural history of consumption than its political history. 2 Even when the study of consumption migrated to France, where the history of the French Revolution loomed large, it did not venture deeply into politics. Daniel Roche emphasized the cultural dynamism of eighteenth-century urban life but rarely raised political questions or delved into the era of the French Revolution. 3 Similarly, Jan de Vries' discussion of the industrious revolution has little to say about the political implications of the growth of consumption. 4 However, the consumer revolution did not unfold in a political vacuum. Europe and the Americas experienced intense political strife in the eighteenth century that culminated in the American Revolution (1775-1783), French Revolution (1789-1799), Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), and Latin American rev

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN