 | Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930 Subjects: Social values -- United States -- History; Envy -- Social aspects; Social status -- United States -- History; Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States; Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century; "How the Tenth Commandment (that's the one about coveting) became extinct is a tale of how the emotional style of this country mutated within the golden years of the nascent consumer economy, which Susan J. Matt . . . defines as the period between 1890 and 1930. She explains that we couldn't be a nation of consumers until we were given public license to envy."-- New York Times Susan J. Matt teaches history at Weber State University. |
