Books written by Wendy A. Woloson

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  Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America

  As simply an explanation of how Americans became such avid consumers of sugar, this book is superb and can be recommended highly.” —Ken Albala, Winterthur Portfolio “An enlightening tale about the social identity of sweets, how they ...

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  In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression

  For more on Americans' precarious personal finances, see Karger, Shortchanged, and Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke (New York: Basic Books, 2003).

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  Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America

  Crap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much crap.

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  Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America

  These essays reveal that the rules of economic engagement were still being established in the nineteenth century: delineations between legal and illegal, moral and immoral, acceptable and unsuitable were far from clear.

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  Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America

  Sugar became a social marker that established and reinforced class and gender differences."--BOOK JACKET.