Consumption and the world of goods /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brewer, John, 1947-, Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
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Table of Contents:
  • Coming up for air : consumer culture in historical perspective / Jean-Christopher Agnew
  • Understanding traditional and modern patterns of consumption in eighteenth-century England : a character-action approach / Colin Campbell
  • Consumption : disease of the consumer society? / Roy Porter
  • Between purchasing power and the world of goods : understanding the household economy in early modern Europe / Jan de Vries
  • European consumption and Asian production in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / John E. Willis, Jr.
  • Res et verba : conspicuous consumption in the early modern world / Peter Burke
  • Consumption in early modern social thought / Joyce Appleby
  • Changes in English and Anglo-American consumption from 1550 to 1800 / Carole Shammas
  • The meaning of consumer behaviour in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England / Lorna Weatherill.
  • The production and marketing of populuxe goods in eighteenth-century Paris / Cissie Fairchilds
  • The meaning of things : interpreting the consumer economy in the eighteenth century / T.H. Breen
  • The changing roles of food in the study of consumption / Sidney W. Mintz
  • Women and the world of goods : a Lancashire consumer and her possessions, 1751-81 / Amanda Vickery
  • Literacy in context : meaning and measurement in early modern England / David Cressy
  • Reckoning with commerce : numeracy in eighteenth-century America / Patricia Cline Cohen
  • Teaching in the market-place, or 'Caesar adsum jam forte : Pompey aderat' : the retailing of knowledge in provincial England during the eighteenth century / John Money
  • The book trade in eastern Europe in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Iaroslav Isaievych
  • Selling it to the provinces : news and commerce round eighteenth-century Salisbury / C.Y. Ferdinand.
  • The business of political enlightenment in France, 1770-1800 / Jeremy D. Popkin
  • Reading and writing with nature : a materialist approach to French formal gardens / Chandra Mukerji
  • Presuming images and consuming words : the visualization of knowledge from the Enlightenment to post-modernism / Barbara Maria Stafford
  • Perishable commodities : Dutch still-life paintings and the 'empire of things' / Simon Schama
  • The consuming flame : electrical showmen and Tory mystics in the world of goods / Simon Schaffer
  • Manufacturing, consumption and design in eighteenth-century England / John Styles.