Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe 1650-1850

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Maxine Berg, Helen Clifford
Manchester University Press, 1999 - 260 pages
From tulips to jewels, gastronomy to silver, coffee to colours, that late 17th century and the 18th century saw an explosion of consumer and luxury objexts and a growing demand for their consumption by a widening section of the population.
 

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Adam Smiths accommodation of altogether endless
18
shifting realms
37
New commodities luxuries and their consumers
63
In the name of the tulip Why speculation?
88
Colours and colour making in the eighteenth century
103
Jewellery in eighteenthcentury England
120
the value of precious
147
the Revolution the learned
170
Louis Hippolyte
183
Romanticism and the urge to consume in
208
The National Gallery in London and its public
228
Index
251
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