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This book focuses on early examples of women who may be said to
have anticipated, in one way or another, modern professional and/or
career-oriented women. The contributors to the book discuss women
who may at least in some respect be seen as professionally
ambitious, unlike the great majority of working women in the past.
In order to improve their positions or to find better business
opportunities, the women discussed in this book invested in
developing their qualifications and professional skills, took
economic or other kinds of risks, or moved to other countries.
Socially, they range from elite women to women of middle-class and
lower middle-class origin. In terms of theory, the book brings
fresh insights into issues that have been long discussed in the
field of women's history and are also debated today. However,
despite its focus on women, the book is conceptually not so much
focused on gender as it is on profession, business, career,
qualifications, skills, and work. By applying such concepts to
analyzing women's endeavours, the book aims at challenging the
conventional ideas about them.
This book focuses on early examples of women who may be said to
have anticipated, in one way or another, modern professional and/or
career-oriented women. The contributors to the book discuss women
who may at least in some respect be seen as professionally
ambitious, unlike the great majority of working women in the past.
In order to improve their positions or to find better business
opportunities, the women discussed in this book invested in
developing their qualifications and professional skills, took
economic or other kinds of risks, or moved to other countries.
Socially, they range from elite women to women of middle-class and
lower middle-class origin. In terms of theory, the book brings
fresh insights into issues that have been long discussed in the
field of women's history and are also debated today. However,
despite its focus on women, the book is conceptually not so much
focused on gender as it is on profession, business, career,
qualifications, skills, and work. By applying such concepts to
analyzing women's endeavours, the book aims at challenging the
conventional ideas about them.
Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of
scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury
and taste in early modern Europe. In the 18th century, debates
raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury,
whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence and a marker of
rank and status. This book takes a fresh, comparative approach to
these ideas, drawing together new scholarship to examine three
related areas in a wide variety of European contexts. Firstly, the
deployment of luxury goods in displays of status and how these
practices varied across space and time. Secondly, the processes of
communicating and acquiring taste and luxury: how did people obtain
tasteful and luxurious goods, and how did they recognise them as
such? Thirdly, the ways in which ideas of taste and luxury crossed
national, political and economic boundaries: what happened to
established ideas of luxury and taste as goods moved from one
country to another, and during times of political transformation?
Through the analysis of case studies looking at consumption
practices, material culture, political economy and retail
marketing, A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe challenges
established readings of luxury and taste. This is a crucial volume
for any historian seeking a more nuanced understanding of material
culture, consumption and luxury in early modern Europe.
Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of
scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury
and taste in early modern Europe. In the 18th century, debates
raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury,
whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence and a marker of
rank and status. This book takes a fresh, comparative approach to
these ideas, drawing together new scholarship to examine three
related areas in a wide variety of European contexts. Firstly, the
deployment of luxury goods in displays of status and how these
practices varied across space and time. Secondly, the processes of
communicating and acquiring taste and luxury: how did people obtain
tasteful and luxurious goods, and how did they recognise them as
such? Thirdly, the ways in which ideas of taste and luxury crossed
national, political and economic boundaries: what happened to
established ideas of luxury and taste as goods moved from one
country to another, and during times of political transformation?
Through the analysis of case studies looking at consumption
practices, material culture, political economy and retail
marketing, A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe challenges
established readings of luxury and taste. This is a crucial volume
for any historian seeking a more nuanced understanding of material
culture, consumption and luxury in early modern Europe.
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