Description
Temporarily out of stock
Title: Brief History of Thrift, A
Author: HULME ALISON
Illustrator: 5 BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/03/2021
Imprint: MANCHESTER UNI PRESS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
This book surveys 'thrift' through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, focussing in on key moments such as the early Puritans and Post-war rationing, and key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Henry Thoreau. The relationships between thrift and frugality, mindfulness, sustainability, and alternative consumption practices are explained, and connections made between myriad conceptions of thrift and contemporary concerns for how consumer cultures impact scarce resources, wealth distribution, and the Anthropocene. Ultimately, the book returns the reader to an understanding of thrift as it was originally used – to 'thrive' – and attempts to re-cast thrift in more collective, economically egalitarian terms, reclaiming it as a genuinely resistant practice. — .
ISBN: 9781526155962
Dimension: 234mm X 156mm