"Prosperity for All is a significant book that offers a new angle—and much fresh evidence, from previously unstudied places—on the history and meaning of the modern consumer movement. Matthew Hilton has done an impressive range of research around the world. By lining up Western examples alongside the vibrant bur largely unkown movement in Asia and elsewhere, Hilton shows the 'consumer movement' to be more complex and global than has been heretofore recognized." —Lawrence Glickman, University of South Carolina
"By examining the politics of consumption and competing visions of freedom of choice, Matthew Hilton has raised the discussion about consumerism in a globalizing society to a new level. Prosperity for All presents a comparative picture of consumerism and advances theoretical discussion; it will also be welcomed by anyone interested in the subject. Becuase of its interdisciplinary approach and its subject matter, this book should show up in classrooms devoted to sociology, political economy, history, and global studies." —Bruce Mazlish, MIT
Matthew Hilton is Professor of Social History at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement and Smoking in British Popular Culture, 1800-2000.
