Commodifying everything: relationships of the market

Introduction / Susan Strasser

1. Give-and-Take of Consumer Culture / Jean-Christophe Agnew

2. Buying Your Friends: The Pet Business and American Consumer Culture / Katherine C. Grier

3. Commodity of Self: Nineteenth-Century Human Hair Jewelry / Helen Sheumaker

4. Undesired Necessity: The Commodification of Medical Service in the Interwar United States / Nancy Tomes

5. "Preserving Their Form and Features": The Commodification of Coffins in the American Understanding of Death / Brent W. Tharp

6. Healthcare as Product: Catholic Sisters Confront Charity and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925 / Barbra Mann Wall

7. "Preachers and Peddlers of God": Ex-Slaves and the Selling of African-American Religion in the American South / John M. Giggie

8. Politics of Ghee Adulteration and Its Public Resolutions in Calcutta, c. 1917 / Anne Hardgrove

9. Marketing Community: State Reform of Indian Village Property and Expenditure in Colonial Mexico, 1775-1810 / Andrew B. Fisher

10. Commodifying Chinese Nationalism: MSG and the Flavor of Patriotic Production / Karl Gerth

11. Packaging Skills: Calibrating Cheese to the Global Market / Christina Grasseni.

The give-and-take of consumer culture / Jean-Christophe Agnew

Buying your friends : the pet business and American consumer culture / Katherine C. Grier

The commodity of self : nineteenth-century human hair jewelry / Helen Sheumaker

An undesired necessity : the commodification of medical service in the interwar United States / Nancy Tomes

"Preserving their form and features" : the commodification of coffins in the American understanding of death / Brent W. Tharp

Healthcare as product : Catholic sisters confront charity and the hospital marketplace, 1865-1925 / Barbra Mann Wall

"Preachers and peddlers of God" : ex-slaves and the selling of African-American religion in the American South / John M. Giggie

The politics of ghee adulteration and its public resolutions in Calcutta, c. 1917 / Anne Hardgrove

Marketing community : state reform of Indian village property and expenditure in colonial Mexico, 1775-1810 / Andrew B. Fisher

Commodifying Chinese nationalism : MSG and the flavor of patriotic production / Karl Gerth

Packaging skills : calibrating cheese to the global market / Cristina Grasseni.