Book Review: Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities

Berger John (1972), Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin Books.

Breen T. H. (1988), “‘Baubles of Britain’: The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century,” Past and Present, 119 (May), 73–104.

Campbell Colin (1987), The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism. London: Blackwell.

Hebdige Dick (1979), Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd.

Lowenthal David (1985), The Past Is a Foreign Country. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

MacCannell Dean (1976), The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: Schocken Books.

McKendrick Neil , Brewer John , and Plumb J. H. (1982), The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England. London: Europa Publications.

Mukerji Chandra (1983), From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism. New York: Columbia University Press.

Schama Simon (1987), The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Solomon Michael , and Assael Henry (1988), “The Forest or the Trees?: A Gestalt Approach to Symbolic Consumption,” in Marketing and Semiotics: New Directions in the Study of Signs for Sale, Umiker-Sebeok Jean , ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 189–217.

Synnott Anthony (1987), “Shame and Glory: A Sociology of Hair,” British Journal of Sociology, 38 (September), 381–413.

Williams Rosalind H. (1982), Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France. Berkeley: University of California Press.