Title Consumption and gender in the early seventeenth-century household : the world of Alice Le Strange / Jane Whittle and Elizabeth Griffiths

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Summary In this account of life in a 17th-century gentry household, the authors delve into the details of everyday life: how did a large, wealthy household in the English countryside acquire the goods and services it needed and wanted? Was household consumption an exclusively female sphere, or did men play an important role, too? Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 5, 2012) Subject Consumption (Economics) -- England -- History -- 17th century. Households -- England -- History -- 17th century. Gentry -- England -- Social conditions -- 17th century. Form Electronic book Author Griffiths, Elizabeth. ISBN 9780191739330 ebook

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