Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Name: Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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ISBN: 9780199215287

ISBN-10: 0199215286

ISBN-13: 9780199215287

Edition: 2007

Authors: Maxine Berg

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Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth century. It follows these goods, from china tea ware to all sorts of metal ornaments such as candlesticks, cutlery, buckles, and buttons, as they were made and shopped for, then displayed in the private domestic settings of Britain's urban middling classes. It tells the stories and analyses the developments that led from a global trade in Eastern luxuries beginning in the sixteenth century to the new global trade in British-made consumer goods by the end of the eighteenth century. Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction



Luxury, Quality, and Delight



The Delights of Luxury



Goods from the East



Invention, Imitation, and Design



How it was Made



Glass and Chinaware: The Grammar of the Polite Table



Metal Things: Useful Devices and Agreeable Trinkets



A Nation of Shoppers



The Middling Classes: Acquisitiveness and Self-Respect



'Shopping is a Place to Go': Fashion, Shopping, and Advertising



Mercantile Theatres: British Commodities and American Consumers


Conclusion