Luxury and pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain / / Maxine Berg
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| Autore: |
Berg Maxine <1950->
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| Titolo: |
Luxury and pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain / / Maxine Berg
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Social conditions 18th century |
| Note generali: | First published: 2005. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-356) and index. |
| 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 |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Luxury & pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain |
| ISBN: | 1-281-34606-3 |
| 0-19-153403-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810387903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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