1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002202200203316

Titolo

Guerra italo-turca (1911-1912) : atti della R. commissione delle prede . 1.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Officina poligrafica italiana, 1912

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 495 p. ; 24 cm

Collocazione

XXV.4.A. 31 1 (IG VIII 17 113)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782882303321

Autore

Berg Maxine

Titolo

Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, UK, 2005

ISBN

1-281-34606-3

0-19-153403-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Disciplina

306.3094109033

339.47094109033

Soggetti

Affluent consumers

Consumer goods

Consumption (Economics)

Luxury goods industry

Middle class

Great Britain Social conditions 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Introduction; PART I. LUXURY, QUALITY, AND DELIGHT; 1. The Delights of Luxury; 2. Goods from the East; 3. Products of the Nation: On Art and Invention; PART II. HOW IT WAS MADE; 4. Glass and Chinaware: The Grammar of the Polite Table; 5. Metal Things: Useful Devices and Agreeable Trinkets; PART III. A NATION OF SHOPPERS; 6. Men and Women of 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

ConclusionBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

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? Who owned these goods, what made them desirable, where did they come from, and how were they made? And how many people actually enjoyed their novelty and fashion? In Luxury and Pleasure in. Eighteenth-Century Britain Maxine Berg explores not only how luxury consumer goods transformed the homes of Britain's ur