Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
392
Utgivningsdatum
2007-04-01
Upplaga
New ed
Utmärkelser
Honourable Mention, Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2006
Förlag
OUP Oxford
Illustratör/Fotograf
2 figures 8 plates
Illustrationer
8pp plates & 2 figures
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 21 mm
Vikt
549 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
49:B&W 6.14 x 9.21 in or 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780199215287

Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain

av Maxine Berg
Häftad,  Engelska, 2007-04-01
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The fine mahogany secretaire with its secret drawers, the lacquered tea table, Chinese and Japanese porcelain tea ware. These fine luxury goods now seem to belong to the English country house or the exclusive antique shop. But what do they tell us about their eighteenth-century consumers? Maxine Berg explores not only how luxury consumer goods transformed the homes of Britain's urban middle classes but how their very production fostered and sustained the world's first industrial revolution.
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Martyn Powell, Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature ...deserves to be the final word on the luxury debate in Britian

Hannah Smith, History Journal Luxury and Pleasure is an interesting, accessible and well-illustrated synthesis of new research and recent writing, and helpfully concludes by pointing to further areas of research

Joyce Burnette, English Historical Review Readers will find this book valuable

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<br>Maxine Berg is Professor of History at the University of Warwick where she has taught since 1978. She is also Director of the Warwick Eighteenth-Century Centre and has recently become a Fellow of the British Academy.<br>

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; PART 1: LUXURY, QUALITY, AND DELIGHT; 1. The Delights of Luxury; 2. Goods from the East; 3. Invention, Imitation, and Design; PART 2: HOW IT WAS MADE; 4. Glass and Chinaware: The Grammar of the Polite Table; 5. Metal Things: Useful Devices and Agreeable Trinkets; PART 3: A NATION OF SHOPPERS; 6. The Middling Classes: Acquisitiveness and Self-Respect; 7. 'Shopping is a Place to Go': Fashion, Shopping, and Advertising; 8. Mercantile Theatres: British Commodities and American Consumers; Conclusion

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