Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Zusatztext Readers will find this book valuable Informationen zum Autor Maxine Berg is Professor of History at the University of Warwick where she has taught since 1978. She is also Director of the Warwick Eighteenth-Century Centre and has recently become a Fellow of the British Academy. Currently writing on global history and the history of luxury and consumer culture, she has also published widely on women's history and on the economic and social history of the Industrial Revolution. Klappentext The fine mahogany secretaire with its secret drawers! the lacquered tea table! Chinese and Japanese porcelain tea ware. These fine luxury goods now seem to belong to the English country house or the exclusive antique shop. But what do they tell us about their eighteenth-century consumers? Maxine Berg explores not only how luxury consumer goods transformed the homes of Britain's urban middle classes but how their very production fostered and sustained the world'sfirst industrial revolution. Zusammenfassung Explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the 18th century. This book tells the stories and analyses the developments that led from a global trade in Eastern luxuries beginning in the 16th century to the new global trade in British-made consumer goods by the end of the 18th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: Luxury, Quality, and Delight 1: The Delights of Luxury 2: Goods from the East 3: Invention, Imitation, and Design Part 2: How it was Made 4: Glass and Chinaware: The Grammar of the Polite Table 5: Metal Things: Useful Devices and Agreeable Trinkets Part 3: A Nation of Shoppers 6: The Middling Classes: Acquisitiveness and Self-Respect 7: 'Shopping is a Place to Go': Fashion, Shopping, and Advertising 8: Mercantile Theatres: British Commodities and American Consumers Conclusion

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• Authors: Maxine Berg, Maxine ( Berg, Maxine (Professor of History Berg
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.2007
• EAN: 9780199215287
• ISBN: 978-0-19-921528-7
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Consumerism, C 1700 To C 1800