Ellen Leopold
Biographic Data
| ID | 372903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Leopold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Leopold |
| SIGNATURE | LEOPOLD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Municipal Socialism Then and Now: Some lessons for the Global South
Given the large and growing literature opposed to the privatisation of services such as water and electricity, it is peculiar that so little has been written about the experience of ‘municipal socialism’—a set of roughly analogous historical movements that used local governments to challenge private service delivery and advance ‘socialist’ agendas from the late 1800s to the 1940s. Although primarily a European and American phenomenon, and emergin…
Committed Chronicler: Eleanor Marx's Biographer
Yvonne Kapp, Time Will Tell: Memoirs (New York: Verso, 2003), 296 pages, cloth $25.00.Yvonne Kapp is best known for her biography of Eleanor Marx (1855-1898). Published in two volumes in 1972 and 1976, it rescued the youngest daughter of Karl Marx from the obscure corner she occupied in biographies of her famous father and restored her to a position of prominence among the major players in the development of late nineteenth-century British social…
Washed Up on Long Island: Urban Renewal at the Beach
Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway by Lawrence Kaplan and Carol P. KaplanThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The World of Consumption
In the opinion of many people the last decade saw the arrival of the `consumer society'. However, the response of social theory to consumerism has been barely appropriate to the scale of the changes. As an antidote to this, the authors propose the adoption of a new, more inclusive theoretical approach, based on "systems of provision". This emphasises different forms of determination for different products. It also emphasises the essential continu…
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: The Politics of Rachel Carson
Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson, edited and with an introduction by Linda Lear.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The Levittown Legacy
Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened by Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth EwenThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Consumer Culture Reborn: The Cultural Politics of Consumption
The World of Consumption
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production' - Adam Smith Commodities are in love with money but the course of true love never did run smooth ' - Karl Marx For some theorists the consumer is king. The tastes and preferences of the individual, communicated through the magic mechanism of the market dictate what is produced and whether producers succeed or fail. For others comsumption traps the individual in a fetish like devotion to g…
The World of Consumption
Consumerism and the industrial revolution∗
(1990). Consumerism and the industrial revolution. Social History: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 151-179
Consumerism and the industrial revolution∗
(1990). Consumerism and the industrial revolution. Social History: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 151-179
Municipal Socialism Then and Now: Some lessons for the Global South
Given the large and growing literature opposed to the privatisation of services such as water and electricity, it is peculiar that so little has been written about the experience of ‘municipal socialism’—a set of roughly analogous historical movements that used local governments to challenge private service delivery and advance ‘socialist’ agendas from the late 1800s to the 1940s. Although primarily a European and American phenomenon, and emergin…
The World of Consumption
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production' - Adam Smith Commodities are in love with money but the course of true love never did run smooth ' - Karl Marx For some theorists the consumer is king. The tastes and preferences of the individual, communicated through the magic mechanism of the market dictate what is produced and whether producers succeed or fail. For others comsumption traps the individual in a fetish like devotion to g…
Consumer Culture Reborn: The Cultural Politics of Consumption
The World of Consumption
Consumerism and the industrial revolution∗
(1990). Consumerism and the industrial revolution. Social History: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 151-179
The World of Consumption
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production' - Adam Smith Commodities are in love with money but the course of true love never did run smooth ' - Karl Marx For some theorists the consumer is king. The tastes and preferences of the individual, communicated through the magic mechanism of the market dictate what is produced and whether producers succeed or fail. For others comsumption traps the individual in a fetish like devotion to g…
The World of Consumption
Consumer Culture Reborn: The Cultural Politics of Consumption
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: The Politics of Rachel Carson
Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson, edited and with an introduction by Linda Lear.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The Levittown Legacy
Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened by Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth EwenThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The World of Consumption
In the opinion of many people the last decade saw the arrival of the `consumer society'. However, the response of social theory to consumerism has been barely appropriate to the scale of the changes. As an antidote to this, the authors propose the adoption of a new, more inclusive theoretical approach, based on "systems of provision". This emphasises different forms of determination for different products. It also emphasises the essential continu…
Washed Up on Long Island: Urban Renewal at the Beach
Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway by Lawrence Kaplan and Carol P. KaplanThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Committed Chronicler: Eleanor Marx's Biographer
Yvonne Kapp, Time Will Tell: Memoirs (New York: Verso, 2003), 296 pages, cloth $25.00.Yvonne Kapp is best known for her biography of Eleanor Marx (1855-1898). Published in two volumes in 1972 and 1976, it rescued the youngest daughter of Karl Marx from the obscure corner she occupied in biographies of her famous father and restored her to a position of prominence among the major players in the development of late nineteenth-century British social…
Municipal Socialism Then and Now: Some lessons for the Global South
Given the large and growing literature opposed to the privatisation of services such as water and electricity, it is peculiar that so little has been written about the experience of ‘municipal socialism’—a set of roughly analogous historical movements that used local governments to challenge private service delivery and advance ‘socialist’ agendas from the late 1800s to the 1940s. Although primarily a European and American phenomenon, and emergin…
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