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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Towards a theory of thrift
- 2 Religious thrift: Puritans, Quakers and Methodists
- 3 Individualist thrift: Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Victorian moralism
- 4 Spiritual thrift: simplicity, sensuality and politics in Henry Thoreau
- 5 Nationalist thrift: making do, rationing and nostalgic austerity
- 6 Consumer thrift: Keynes, consumer rights and the new thrifty consumers
- 7 Ecological thrift: frugality, de-growth and Voluntary Simplicity
- Conclusion: Thoreau in the city
- Afterword
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- Source:
- A Brief History of Thrift
- Author(s):
Alison Hulme
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Towards a theory of thrift
- 2 Religious thrift: Puritans, Quakers and Methodists
- 3 Individualist thrift: Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Victorian moralism
- 4 Spiritual thrift: simplicity, sensuality and politics in Henry Thoreau
- 5 Nationalist thrift: making do, rationing and nostalgic austerity
- 6 Consumer thrift: Keynes, consumer rights and the new thrifty consumers
- 7 Ecological thrift: frugality, de-growth and Voluntary Simplicity
- Conclusion: Thoreau in the city
- Afterword
- Notes
- References
- Index
