Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe 1650-1850Maxine 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. |
Table des matières
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 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
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