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Meg Jacobs
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Books

Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, Princeton University Press, 2005.

The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, Co-edited with William Novak and Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University Press, 2003.

Articles

"'Democracy's Third Estate:' New Deal Politics and the construction of a 'Consuming Public.'" International Labor & Working-Class History 55, Spring 1999: 27-51.

"'How About Some Meat?': the Office of Price Administration, Consumption Politics, and State-Building from the Bottom Up, 1941-1946," Journal of American History, December 1997: 910-41.

Book Chapters

Co-author with Julian Zelizer, "Introduction," in The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, Princeton University Press, 2003, 1-19.

"Pocketbook Politics: Democracy and the Market in Twentieth-Century America," in The Democratic Experiment: New Direction in American Political History, Princeton University Press, 2003.

"Inflation: 'The Permanent Dilemma' of the American Middle-Classes," in Olivier Zunz, Leonard Schopps, and Nobuhiro Hiwatari, eds., Social Contracts Under Stress: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century, Russell Sage Press, 2002, 130-153.

"The Politics of Plenty in the United States," in Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton, eds., The Politics of Consumption, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2001, 223-239.

"Constructing a New Political Economy: Philanthropies, Institution-Building, and Consumer Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century," in Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, ed., Studying Philanthropic Foundations: Essays Toward a New History, Indiana University Press, 1999, 101-118.

 

 

 

     


 
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