In this far-ranging and innovative study Christopher Berry explores the meanings and ramifications of the idea of luxury. Insights from political theory, philosophy and intellectual history are utilized in a sophisticated conceptual analysis that is complemented by a series of specific historical investigations. Dr. Berry suggests that the value attached to luxury is a crucial component in any society's self-understanding, and shows how luxury has changed from being essentially a negative term, threatening social virtue, to a guileless ploy supporting consumption.
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"...he makes a strong, trenchantly argued case for the indispensability of the category of luxury to any society's self-understanding." Robert Anchor, American Historical Review
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Suggesting that the value attached to luxury is a crucial component in any society's self-understanding, this innovative study reveals how luxury has changed from being essentially a negative term, threatening social virtue, to a guileless ploy supporting consumption.
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On 31 December 1987 The Times carried the following report, A Lake District Hotel is offering weekend breaks costing nearly 1,000 a day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kata phusin, luxurious city, instrumental needs, sumptuary legislation, civic humanists, private liberty, needed objects, commercial society Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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On 31 December 1987 The Times carried the following report, A Lake District Hotel is offering weekend breaks costing nearly 1,000 a day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kata phusin, luxurious city, instrumental needs, sumptuary legislation, civic humanists, private liberty, needed objects, commercial society Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Adam Smith, East India Company, Philosophy of Right New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- A Discourse of Trade by Nicholas Barbon on page 108, page 109, and Back Matter
- Early Writings (The Marx library) by Karl Marx on page 190, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Adam Smith by R. H. Campbell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Poor Britain by Joanna Mack on page 217, and Back Matter
- The Fable of the Bees: And Other Writings by Bernard Mandeville on page 127, and Back Matter
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- Luxury and Public Happiness in the Italian Enlightenment (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Till Wahnbaeck in Front Matter, and page 3
- Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Nicola Bown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Character of Credit (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories) by Margot C. Finn in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Mock-Heroic From Butler To Cowper: An English Genre And Discourse (Studies in Early Modern English Literature) by Richard Terry on page 105, and Back Matter
- Luxury in the Eighteenth-Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods by Maxine Berg in Front Matter, and page 132
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