Beverly Lemire

The business of everyday life

Gender, practice and social politics in England, c.1600-1900

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book explores the previously under-researched patterns and practices that fashioned a modern consumer society, charting the evolving habits among English men and women across three centuries. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Gender in History
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780719072239
• ISBN-10: 0719072239
• Artikelnr.: 34010871

Autorenporträt

Beverly Lemire is Professor of History and Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: everyday practice and plebeian affairs 2. Gender
the informal economy and the development of capitalism in England
1650-1850; or
credit among the common people 3. Credit for the poor and the failed experiment of the charitable corporation
c. 1700-50 4. Shifting currency: the practice and economy of the secondhand trade
c. 1600-1850 5. Refashioning society: expressions of popular consumerism and dress
c. 1660-1820 6. Savings culture
provident consumerism and the advent of modern consumer society
c. 1780-1900 7. Accounting for the household: gender and the culture of household management
c. 1600-1900 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index