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. Currently writing on global history and the history of luxury and consumer culture, she has also published widely on women's history and on the economic and social history of the Industrial Revolution.

...deserves to be the final word on the luxury debate in Britian

• 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

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. Currently writing on global history and the history of luxury and consumer culture, she has also published widely on women's history and on the economic and social history of the Industrial Revolution.

...deserves to be the final word on the luxury debate in Britian

• 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

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. Currently writing on global history and the history of luxury and consumer culture, she has also published widely on women's history and on the economic and social history of the Industrial Revolution.

...deserves to be the final word on the luxury debate in Britian

• 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