At Home With the Poor - Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, C.1650-1850

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c. 1650-1850). Using a vast and diverse range of sources, it gets to the very heart of what it meant to be 'poor' by examining the homes of the impoverished and mapping how numerous household goods became more widespread. As the book argues, poverty did not necessarily equate to owning very little and living in squalor. In fact, its novel findings show that most of the poor strove to improve their domestic spheres and that their demand for goods was so great that it was a driving force of the industrial revolution.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Joseph Harley
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 18.06.2024
• EAN: 9781526160843
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6084-3
• Pages: 272
• Thème: Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Pédagogie > Pédagogie sociale, travail social; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, c 1800 to c 1900, Poverty & unemployment, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Material Culture, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Social classes, C 1600 To C 1700, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, C 1700 To C 1800, Poverty and precarity, Later 17th century c 1650 to c 1699