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Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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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.
These new products, regarded as luxuries by the rapidly growing
urban and middling-class people of the eighteenth century, played
an important part in helping to proclaim personal identities,and
guide social interaction. Customers enjoyed shopping for them; they
took pleasure in their beauty, ingenuity or convenience. All manner
of new products appeared in shop windows; sophisticated mixed-media
advertising seduced customers and created new wants. This
unparalleled 'product revolution' provoked philosophers and pundits
to proclaim a 'new luxury', one that reached out to the middling
and trading classes, unlike the elite and corrupt luxury of old.
Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain is cultural
history at its best, built on a fresh empirical base drawn directly
from customs accounts, advertising material, company papers, and
contemporary correspondence. Maxine Berg traces how this new
consumer society of the eighteenth century and the products first
traded, then invented to satisfy it, stimulated industrialization
itself. Global markets for the consumer goods of private and
domestic life inspired the industrial revolution and British
products 'won the world'.
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