John Brewer / Roy Porter (eds.)

Consumption and the World of Goods

Herausgeber: Brewer, John; Porter, Roy

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Produktbeschreibung

The study of a past society in terms of what it consumes rather than what it produces is a relatively new development. This is the first of three volumes to examine history from this perspective, by 26 leading subject specialists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 652
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 173mm x 49mm
• Gewicht: 1009g
• ISBN-13: 9780415114783
• ISBN-10: 0415114780
• Artikelnr.: 21704745

Autorenporträt

John Brewer

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction, John Brewer, Roy Porter; Part 1 Problems, Methods
and Concepts; Chapter 2 Corning up for Air: Consumer Culture in Historical
Perspective, Jean-Christophe Agnew; Chapter 3 Understanding Traditional and
Modern Patterns of Consumption in Eighteenth-Century England: A
Character-Action Approach, Colin Campbell; Chapter 4 Consumption: Disease
of The Consumer Society?, Roy Porter; Part 2 Goods and Consumption; Chapter
5 Between Purchasing Power and the World of Goods: Understanding the
Household Economy in Early Modern Europe, Jan de Vriesm; Chapter 6 European
Consumption and Asian Production in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries, John E. Jr Wills; Chapter 7 Res et Verba: Conspicuous
Consumption in the Early Modern World, Peter Burke; Chapter 8 Consumption
in Early Modern Social Thought, Joyce Appleby; Part 3 Production and the
Meaning of Possessions; Chapter 9 Changes in English and Anglo-American
Consumption from 1550 to 1800, Carole Shammas; Chapter 10 The Meaning of
Consumer Behaviour in Late Seventeenth- and early Eighteenth-Century
England, Lorna Weatherill; Chapter 11 The Production and Marketing of
Populuxe Goods in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Cissie Fairchilds; Chapter 12
The Meanings of Things: Interpreting the Consumer Economy in the Eighteenth
Century, T. H. Breen; Chapter 13 The Changing Roles of Food in the Study of
Consumption, Sidney W. Mintz; Chapter 14 Women and the World of Goods: a
Lancashire Consumer and her Possessions, 1751-81, Amanda Vickery; Part 4
Literacy and Numeracy; Chapter 15 Literacy in Context: Meaning and
Measurement in Early Modern England, David Cressy; Chapter 16 Reckoning
with Commerce: Numeracy in Eighteenth-Century America, Patricia Cline
Cohen; Chapter 17 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; Part 5 The Consumption of Culture: Books
and Newspapers; Chapter 18 The Book Trade in Eastern Europe in the
Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries, Iaroslav Isaievych; Chapter 19
Selling it to the Provinces: News and Commerce Round Eighteenth-Century
Salisbury, C. Y. Ferdinand; Chapter 20 The Business of Political
Enlightenment in France, 1770-1800, Jeremy D. Popkin; Part 6 Consumption,
Objects and Images; Chapter 21 Reading and Writing with Nature: A
Materialist Approach to French Formal Gardens, Chandra Mukerji; Chapter 22
Presuming Images and Consuming Words: The Visualization of Knowledge from
the Enlightenment to Post-Modernism, Barbara Maria Stafford; Chapter 23
Perishable Commodities: Dutch Still-Life Painting and the 'Empire of
Things', Simon Schama; Chapter 24 The Consuming Flame: Electrical Showmen
and Tory Mystics in the World of Goods, Simon Schaffer; Chapter 25
Manufacturing, Consumption and Design in Eighteenth-Century England, John
Styles;