Luxury and pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain / / Maxine Berg |
Autore | Berg Maxine <1950-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina |
306.3094109033
339.47094109033 |
Soggetto topico |
Consumption (Economics) - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Consumer goods - Great Britain - History - 18th century Luxury goods industry - Great Britain - History - 18th century Affluent consumers - Great Britain - History - 18th century Middle class - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
1-281-34606-3
0-19-153403-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Altri titoli varianti | Luxury & pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810387903321 |
Berg Maxine <1950-> | ||
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The middling sort : commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 / / Margaret R. Hunt |
Autore | Hunt Margaret R. <1953-> |
Edizione | [Reprint 2020] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1996 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 343 p. ) |
Disciplina | 305.5/0942 |
Soggetto topico |
Middle class - Great Britain - History - 17th century
Middle class - Great Britain - History - 18th century Middle class families - Great Britain - History - 17th century Middle class families - Great Britain - History - 18th century Middle class - History - 17th century - Great Britain Middle class - History - 18th century - Great Britain Middle class families - History - 17th century - Great Britain Middle class families - History - 18th century - Great Britain |
ISBN |
0-520-91694-8
0-585-06285-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON THE TEXT -- Introduction: The Middling Sort -- CHAPTER ONE. Capital, Credit, and the Family -- CHAPTER TWO. A Generation of Vipers: Prudential Virtue and the Sons of Trade -- CHAPTER THREE. To Read, Knit, and Spin: Middling Daughters and the Family Economy -- CHAPTER FOUR. "Just in All Their Dealings": Middling Men and the Reformation of Manners, 1670-1739 -- CHAPTER FIVE. Eighteenth-Century Middling Women and Trade -- CHAPTER SIX. The Bonds of Matrimony and the Spirit of Capitalism -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Print Culture and the Middling Classes: Mapping the World of Commerce -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Private Order and Political Virtue: Domesticity and the Ruling Class -- Conclusion -- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996247906503316 |
Hunt Margaret R. <1953-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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