Title Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914

Published New York : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages) Series Routledge Studies in Cultural History Routledge studies in cultural history. Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Luxury, Gender and the Urban Experience; PART I Markets and Opportunities; 2 Milliners and Marchandes de Modes: Gender, Creativity and Skill in the Workplace; 3 Gender and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Grenoble: From Legal Exchanges to Shadow Economy; 4 Women in the Late Eighteenth-Century-Copenhagen Luxury Trades; 5 Feminisation and the Luxury of Visual Art in London's West End, 1860-1890; PART II Metropole and Province 6 Men, Women and the Supply of Luxury Goods in Eighteenth-Century England: The Purchasing Patterns of Edward and Mary Leigh7 The Luxury Shopping Experience of the Swedish Aristocracy in Eighteenth-Century Paris; 8 Gender and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Catalonia: Town and Countryside; 9 Gender, Craftwork and the Exotic in International Exhibitions c. 1880-1910; PART III Class and Status; 10 A Feminine Luxury in Paris: Marie-Fortunée d'Este, Princesse de Conti (1731-1803); 11 Favourites of Fortune: The Luxury Consumption of the Hackmans of Vyborg, 1790-1825 12 The 'Díszmagyar' as Representation in the Andrássy Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Budapest13 The Luxury They Could Not Afford? Households of Workers in the Industrial Town of Drammen, Norway c. 1900; Afterword: Gender, Luxury and Towns Revisited; Contributors; Guide to Further Reading; Index Summary This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage in Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Luxury -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 18th century Luxury -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century City and town life -- Europe -- History Sex role -- Europe -- History Social classes -- Europe -- History Luxury goods industry -- Europe -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference. City and town life Economic history Luxury goods industry Sex role Social classes Social conditions SUBJECT Europe -- Economic conditions -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045672 Europe -- Economic conditions -- 1789-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045673 Europe -- Social conditions -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045757 Europe -- Social conditions -- 1789-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045758 Europe -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045674 Subject Europe Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Kaartinen, Marjo Montenach, Anne ISBN 9781317611363 1317611365 9781315750170 1315750171 9781317611349 1317611349 9781317611356 1317611357 1138803162 9781138803169

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