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Consumption and the Country House (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,158
Discovery Miles 21 580
Consumption and the Country House (Hardcover): Jon Stobart, Mark Rothery

Consumption and the Country House (Hardcover)

Jon Stobart, Mark Rothery

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This study explores the consumption practices of the landed aristocracy of Georgian England. Focussing on three families and drawing on detailed analysis of account books, receipted bills, household inventories, diaries and correspondence, Consumption and the Country House charts the spending patterns of this elite group during the so-called consumer revolution of the eighteenth century. Generally examined through the lens of middling families, homes and motivations, this book explores the ways in which the aristocracy were engaged in this wider transformation of English society. Analysis centres on the goods that the aristocracy purchased, both luxurious and mundane; the extent to which they pursued fashionable modes and goods; the role that family and friends played in shaping notions of taste; the influence of gender on taste and refinement; the geographical reach of provisioning and the networks that lay behind this consumer activity, and the way this all contributed to the construction of the country house. The country house thus emerges as much more than a repository of luxury and splendour; it lay at the heart of complex networks of exchange, sociability, demand, and supply. Exploring these processes and relationships serves to reanimate the country house, making it an active site of consumption rather than simply an expression of power and taste, and drawing it into the mainstream of consumption histories. At the same time, the landed aristocracy are shown to be rounded consumers, driven by values of thrift and restraint as much as extravagant desires, and valuing the old as well as the new, not least as markers of their pedigree and heritance.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2016
Authors: Jon Stobart (Professor of History) • Mark Rothery (Senior Lecturer in History)
Dimensions: 241 x 171 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-872626-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 0-19-872626-0
Barcode: 9780198726265

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