false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176166357m/600238.jpg 600238 2 The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of galvanizing resistance. In a richly interdisciplinary narrative that weaves insights into a changing material culture with analysis of popular political protests, Breen shows how virtual strangers managed to communicate a sense of trust that effectively united men and women long before they had established a nation of their own. The Marketplace of Revolution argues that the colonists' shared experience as consumers in a new imperial economy afforded them the cultural resources that they needed to develop a radical strategy of political protest--the consumer boycott. Never before had a mass political movement organized itself around disruption of the marketplace. As Breen demonstrates, often through anecdotes about obscure Americans, communal rituals of shared sacrifice provided an effective means to educate and energize a dispersed populace. The boycott movement--the signature of American resistance--invited colonists traditionally excluded from formal political processes to voice their opinions about liberty and rights within a revolutionary marketplace, an open, raucous public forum that defined itself around subscription lists passed door-to-door, voluntary associations, street protests, destruction of imported British goods, and incendiary newspaper exchanges. Within these exchanges was born a new form of politics in which ordinary man and women--precisely the people most often overlooked in traditional accounts of revolution--experienced an exhilarating surge of empowerment. Breen recreates an "empire of goods" that transformed everyday life during the mid-eighteenth century. Imported manufactured items flooded into the homes of colonists from New Hampshire to Georgia. The Marketplace of Revolution explains how at a moment of political crisis Americans gave political meaning to the pursuit of happiness and learned how to make goods speak to power. 586843 20 1 2004 The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence total:38|5:7|4:16|3:13|2:2| 38 142 60 7 4 0 false false Thu Mar 19 20:47:12 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 20:54:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 02 19:47:41 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 19:53:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 17:08:53 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 21:07:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 14:55:05 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 14:36:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 19:45:14 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 18:23:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 17 21:37:57 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 21:39:31 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Tue Jul 03 17:06:20 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 17:06:42 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sat Nov 14 08:27:52 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 08:27:52 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 11:56:09 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 11:56:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 25 11:21:04 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 11:06:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 24 18:48:24 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 18:48:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 22 23:05:12 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 23:05:12 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jun 09 20:58:35 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 20:58:35 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jun 06 12:49:01 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 12:49:08 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jun 03 08:46:19 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 08:46:19 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue May 05 18:45:23 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 18:45:34 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Apr 05 19:15:32 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 19:15:32 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Feb 01 23:13:31 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 23:13:31 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Jan 25 16:32:45 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 16:32:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 14 11:35:13 -0700 2009 Fri Jan 16 04:54:22 -0800 2009 Sun Jun 14 11:35:54 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=600238