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The Eclipse of Elegant Economy: The Impact of the Second World War on Attitudes to Personal Finance in Britain
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Hardcover
from Ashgate Pub Co (March 1, 2012); titled "The Eclipse of 'Elegant Economy': The Impact of the Second World War on Attitudes to Personal Finance in Britain"
9781409439721 | details & prices | 235 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $149.95
About: Elizabeth Gaskell might have been amused to learn that the Victorian 'elegant economy' she mocked so poignantly in Cranford reached a new apogee in the mid-twentieth century and endured the invasion of its precise antithesis, 'conspicuous consumption'.
About: Elizabeth Gaskell might have been amused to learn that the Victorian 'elegant economy' she mocked so poignantly in Cranford reached a new apogee in the mid-twentieth century and endured the invasion of its precise antithesis, 'conspicuous consumption'.