| Description |
xix, 564 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, facsimiles, portraits ; 26 cm |
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Consumption and culture in the 17th and 18th centuries ; 1 |
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Consumption and culture in the 17th and 18th centuries ; 1
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| Contents |
Coming up for air : consumer culture in historical perspective / Jean-Christopher Agnew -- Understanding traditional and modern patterns of consumption in eighteenth-century England : a character-action approach / Colin Campbell -- Consumption : disease of the consumer society? / Roy Porter -- Between purchasing power and the world of goods : understanding the household economy in early modern Europe / Jan de Vries -- European consumption and Asian production in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / John E. Willis, Jr. -- Res et verba : conspicuous consumption in the early modern world / Peter Burke -- Consumption in early modern social thought / Joyce Appleby -- Changes in English and Anglo-American consumption from 1550 to 1800 / Carole Shammas -- The meaning of consumer behaviour in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England / Lorna Weatherill |
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The business of political enlightenment in France, 1770-1800 / Jeremy D. Popkin -- Reading and writing with nature : a materialist approach to French formal gardens / Chandra Mukerji -- Presuming images and consuming words : the visualization of knowledge from the Enlightenment to post-modernism / Barbara Maria Stafford -- Perishable commodities : Dutch still-life paintings and the 'empire of things' / Simon Schama -- The consuming flame : electrical showmen and Tory mystics in the world of goods / Simon Schaffer -- Manufacturing, consumption and design in eighteenth-century England / John Styles |
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The production and marketing of populuxe goods in eighteenth-century Paris / Cissie Fairchilds -- The meaning of things : interpreting the consumer economy in the eighteenth century / T.H. Breen -- The changing roles of food in the study of consumption / Sidney W. Mintz -- Women and the world of goods : a Lancashire consumer and her possessions, 1751-81 / Amanda Vickery -- Literacy in context : meaning and measurement in early modern England / David Cressy -- Reckoning with commerce : numeracy in eighteenth-century America / Patricia Cline Cohen -- Teaching in the market-place, or 'Caesar adsum jam forte : Pompey aderat' : the retailing of knowledge in provincial England during the eighteenth century / John Money -- The book trade in eastern Europe in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Iaroslav Isaievych -- Selling it to the provinces : news and commerce round eighteenth-century Salisbury / C.Y. Ferdinand |
| Summary |
"Under the direction of Professor John Brewer, the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and the Clark Library at UCLA have created an ambitious international programme to analyse the material culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through its patterns of consumption. Focus on this period allows consideration of a world in which economic and political connections are becoming global, in which an unprecedented range of goods and services are on offer, and in which the old political structures are first subverted and then radically modified. The Age of Enlightenment is transmuted into the first Age of Consumption." "The present volume, the first of three, is the result of a unique collaboration between twenty-six leading subject specialists from Europe and North America. The outcome is a new interpretation of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one that shapes a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Goods Consumption History |
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Europe |
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Goods Consumption History |
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North America |
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Europe |
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Goods Consumption History |
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North America |
| Notes |
"The papers in this volume were part of the three-year research project mounted by the Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies and the Clark Library at UCLA on 'Culture and consumption in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'" -- Pref |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available in print edition |
| Subject |
Consumer -- England -- History.
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Civilization -- History.
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Consumer behavior.
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Consumers -- History.
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Consumer goods -- History.
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Consumers -- Europe -- History.
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Consumers' preferences.
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Consumers.
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Consumption (Economics) -- History.
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Culture -- History.
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Social values -- History.
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| Author |
Brewer, John, 1947-
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Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
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| LC no. |
93180136 |
| ISBN |
0415037123 |
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0415114780 (paperback) |
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