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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Grant David McCracken |
| ISBN: | 0253315263 9780253315267 |
| OCLC Number: | 16405913 |
| Description: | xv, 174 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The making of modern consumption -- "Ever dearer in our thoughts" : Patina and the representation of status before and after the eighteenth century -- Lois Roget : curatorial consumer in a modern world -- Clothing as language : an object lesson in the study of the expressive properties of material culture -- Meaning manufacture and movement in the world of goods -- Consumer goods, gender construction, and a rehabilitated trickle-down theory -- The evocative power of things : consumer goods and the preservation of hopes and ideals -- Diderot unities and the Diderot effect : neglected cultural aspects of consumption -- Consumption, change, and continuity. |
| Responsibility: | Grant McCracken. |
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