02758nam 22005173u 450 991045438750332120210114044135.01-281-34606-30-19-153403-X(CKB)1000000000718802(EBL)422515(OCoLC)476257657(MiAaPQ)EBC422515(EXLCZ)99100000000071880220130418d2005|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain[electronic resource]Oxford Oxford University Press, UK20051 online resource (392 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-927208-5 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 ConsumersConclusionBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YThe 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 urAffluent consumersConsumer goodsConsumption (Economics)Luxury goods industryMiddle classElectronic books.Affluent consumers.Consumer goods.Consumption (Economics).Luxury goods industry.Middle class.306.3094109033339.47094109033Berg Maxine126928AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910454387503321Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain1898679UNINA