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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Erscheint auch als: Stobart, Jon, 1966. Consumption and the country house. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016 1 online resource Online-Ausgabe |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jon Stobart; Mark Rothery |
ISBN: | 9780198726265 0198726260 |
OCLC Number: | 1001553438 |
Awards: | Winner of Runner up of the 2018 Prize for Best Book in Social History, awarded by the Social History Society. |
Description: | x, 304 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction1: Anatomy of elite spending: fashion, luxury, and splendour2: Constructing the country house: habitus, performance, and assemblages of goods3: Practicalities, utility, and the everydayness of consumption4: Gentlemen's things: the masculine world of goods and consumption as self fashioning5: Gentlewomen's things: women and country house consumption6: Consumption and the household: family, friends, and servants7: Supplying the country house: craftsmen and retailers8: Geographies of consumption: hierarchies, localities, and shoppingConclusionsAppendix: family treesBibliography |
Responsibility: | Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery. |
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With keen historiographic insights and a wealth of interesting detail, the authors of this book have produced an insightful account of consumption and class in eighteenth-century England ... the authors have provided a lucid and illuminating account of elite eighteenth-century consumption. * Amy Harris, The Historian * Read more...
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