Material Goods, Moving Hands Perceiving Production in England, 17001830

Informationen zum Autor Kate Smith is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century History at the University of Birmingham Klappentext In eighteenth-century Britain, greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever-greater quantities. As consumers rather than producers, how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change? Material goods and moving hands combines material culture and visual culture approaches to explore the different ways in which manufacturers and retailers presented production to consumers during the eighteenth century. It shows how new relationships with production processes encouraged consumers, retailers, designers, manufacturers and workers to develop conflicting understandings of production. Objects then were not just markers of fashion and taste, they acted as important conduits through which people living in Georgian Britain could examine and discuss their material world and the processes and knowledge that rendered it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. New ways of looking2. Visual access to production3. Listening in to the manufacturing world4. Picturing production and embodying knowledge Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Kate Smith is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century History at the University of Birmingham

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• Authors: Kate Smith, Smith Kate, Kate Smith
• Assisted by: Christopher Breward (Editor), Bill Sherman (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.10.2014
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)
• EAN: 9780719090677
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9067-7
• Pages: 200
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design and Material
• Subjects: England, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Production & Operations Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Quality Control, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Production & quality control management, C 1700 To C 1800, Production and quality control management