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Consumption and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Author: Consumption and Culture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author: John BrewerPublisher:
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Consumption and the World of Goods
Author: John BrewerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136157670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The study of past society in terms of what it consumes rather than what it produces is - relatively speaking - a new development. The focus on consumption changes the whole emphasis and structure of historical enquiry. While human beings usually work within a single trade or industry as producers, as, say, farmers or industrial workers, as consumers they are active in many different markets or networks. And while history written from a production viewpoint has, by chance or design, largely been centred on the work of men, consumption history helps to restore women o the mainstream. The history of consumption demands a wide range of skills. It calls upon the methods and techniques of many other disciplines, including archaeology, sociology, social and economic history, anthropology and art criticism. But it is not simply a melting-pot of techniques and skills, brought to bear on a past epoch. Its objectives amount to a new description of a past culture in its totality, as perceived through its patterns of consumption in goods and services. Consumption and the World of Goods is the first of three volumes to examine history from this perspective, and is 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.
Consumers and Luxury
Author: Maxine BergPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719052743
Category : Consumer goods
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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This volume charts the rise of consumer culture in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. Essays are included on France and Holland, but the focus is primarily on Britain. Themes discussed include art markets, collecting and display, and are set alongside those of value and luxury.
The Consumption of Culture, 1600-1800
Author: Ann BerminghamPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415159975
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Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Consumption and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries: a Bibliography
Author: California University (Los Angeles). Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century StudiesPublisher:
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A History of Global Consumption
Author: Ina Baghdiantz McCabePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317652657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 – 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using a combination of chronological and thematic discussion, taking a comprehensive and wide-reaching view of a subject that has long been on the historical agenda. The title explores the topic from the rise of the collector in Renaissance Europe to the birth of consumption as a political tool in the eighteenth century. Beginning with an overview of the history of consumption and the major theorists, such as Bourdieu, Elias and Barthes, who have shaped its development as a field, Baghdiantz McCabe approaches the subject through a clear chronological framework. Supplemented by illlustrations in every chapter and ranging in scope from an analysis of the success of American commodities such as tobacco, sugar and chocolate in Europe and Asia to a discussion of the Dutch tulip mania, A History of Global Consumption: 1500 – 1800 is the perfect guide for all students interested in the social, cultural and economic history of the early modern period.
Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household
Author: Jane WhittlePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199233535
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In this vivid reconstruction of life in a seventeenth-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?
Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800
Author: Woodruff D. SmithPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415933292
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Tying together of several distinct cultural patterns during this century to create a culture of respectability and its impact on popular culture, trade, politics, social dynamics, and literature, this original and thoughtful work provides a comprehensive and much-needed understanding of the origins of modern consumption and all of its cultural implications.
Consuming Splendor
Author: Linda Levy PeckPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521842327
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.