Calendar table.

WEEK #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction to the world of goods
Part I: the rise of a mass market at the turn of the century
2	Downtown shopping
3	Leisure time	Paper proposal due
4	The business of consumption
Part II: making a middle-class society in interwar America
6	No class: meet to discuss papers
5	Roaring twenties	Detailed bibliography due
7	Advertising the American dream	One best source due
8	Abundance and its critics (I)
Part III: mass culture in postwar America
9	Status seeking in the suburbs	Introduction and outline due
10	Age of television
Part IV: conspicuous consumption at century's end
11	McDonalds, microwaves, and the mega-rich	Rough draft due
12	Abundance and its critics (II)
13	E-bay and beyond	Final paper due