1st Edition
The Politics of Consumption in the Modern Age Discourse, Regulation and Material Practices
Introduction: The politics of consumption as discursive space: structures, actors, and interactions in the modern age
Charris De Smet, Ilja Van Damme and Marnix Beyen
1. ‘The people, too, can be consumers’: debating French consumer citizenship in the ‘Age of Revolution’ (c. 1830–c. 1848)
Charris De Smet
2. Steering the free market through a food crisis? Fiscal policy and meat consumption in Brussels during the 1840s
Dennis De Vriese
3. Sons of our race! Help your motherland! Buy Italian! Italian propaganda through food ads among Italian American ethnic communities at the turn of the century
Federico Chiaricati
4. Fashion victims and patriotic consumers: clothing consumption and its political and gendered issues in Lebanon during the French Mandate
Marie-Laure Archambault-Küch
5. Against the dictatorship of rationality. Austerity and consumption in Italy during the seventies
Silvia Pizzirani
Biography
Charris De Smet is a Historian and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Antwerp. As a member of Power in History – Center for Political History, she specializes in the study of parliamentary culture, the politics of consumption and women’s political writing in nineteenth-century Western Europe.
Ilja Van Damme is Full Professor in Urban History at the University of Antwerp, where he is a board member of the Centre for Urban History (CSG) and the Urban Studies Institute (USI). He specializes in the analysis of Belgian urban life and culture in the modern period (18th-20th centuries).
Marnix Beyen is Full Professor in Modern and Contemporary Political History at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where he is a member of Power in History – Center for Political History. His research fields include the history of parliamentary culture and of nationalism in Western Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.
