From tulips to jewels, gastronomy to silver, coffee to colors, the late seventeenth century and the eighteenth century saw an explosion of consumer and luxury objects and a growing demand for their consumption by a widening section of the population. This highly entertaining and interdisciplinary volume brings together an outstanding group of scholars to chart the rise of consumer culture in Europe during this period. The volume includes essays on France and Holland, but the focus is primarily on Britain.
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Maxine Berg is Reader in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. Helen Clifford is a member of the Research Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Suspicion lingers among some students of social history that Adam Smith, percipient critic and remarkable systematiser of the economic events and thought of his age though he was, somehow failed to grasp the significance of one major contemporary development: the spread of consumer goods to 'middling and inferior' households all over Britain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gastronomic writings, luxury debates, luxury ware, diamond buckles, middling groups, fashion journals, new consumer goods, consumer objects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Gallery, Grand Livre, Select Committee, New Haven, Wealth of Nations, New York, Matthew Boulton, Empress Josephine, Minutes of the Chemistry Committee, Society of Arts, Cadet de Gassicourt, Horace Walpole, John Stuart Mill, Duchess of Marlborough, French Revolution, Jane Cockburn, Walter Scott, The Bosschaert Dynasty, Adam Smith, Almanach des Gourmands, Assay Office Papers, Cadet de Vaux, Charles Eastlake, Cuthbert Gordon, Daniel Roche New!
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Suspicion lingers among some students of social history that Adam Smith, percipient critic and remarkable systematiser of the economic events and thought of his age though he was, somehow failed to grasp the significance of one major contemporary development: the spread of consumer goods to 'middling and inferior' households all over Britain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gastronomic writings, luxury debates, luxury ware, diamond buckles, middling groups, fashion journals, new consumer goods, consumer objects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Gallery, Grand Livre, Select Committee, New Haven, Wealth of Nations, New York, Matthew Boulton, Empress Josephine, Minutes of the Chemistry Committee, Society of Arts, Cadet de Gassicourt, Horace Walpole, John Stuart Mill, Duchess of Marlborough, French Revolution, Jane Cockburn, Walter Scott, The Bosschaert Dynasty, Adam Smith, Almanach des Gourmands, Assay Office Papers, Cadet de Vaux, Charles Eastlake, Cuthbert Gordon, Daniel Roche New!
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- Consumption and the World of Goods (Consumption & Culture in the 17th & 18th Centuries) by John Brewer on 16 pages
- The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on 11 pages
- Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (Re Visions (London, England)) by Carol Duncan on page 245, page 246, and page 247
- Sorrows of Young Werther (Everymans Library) by Johann Wolfgang Goethe on page 218, and page 225
- The Mind of the European Romantics: An Essay in Cultural History (Oxford Paperbacks) by Hans George Artur Viktor Schenk on page 225, and page 226
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- Luxury in the Eighteenth-Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods by Maxine Berg on 5 pages
- Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800 by Woodruff D. Smith on 4 pages
- The Character of Credit (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories) by Margot C. Finn in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The French Revolution and the People by David Andress in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800 by Woodruff Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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