| Description |
xii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rise and fall of the luxury debates / Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger -- Mandeville, Rousseau and the political economy of fantasy / Edward Hundert -- Luxury in the Dutch Golden Age in theory and practice / Jan de Vries -- Aestheticising the critique of luxury : Smollett's Humphry Clinker / Michael McKeon -- Furnishing discourses : readings of a writing desk in eighteenth-century France / Dena Goodman -- Circulation of luxury goods in eighteenth-century Paris : social redistribution and an alternative currency / Laurence Fontaine -- Custom or consumption? Plebeian fashion in eighteenth-century England / John Styles -- From the moral mound to the material maze : Hogarth's Analysis of beauty / Annie Richardson -- From luxury to comfort and back again : landscape architecture and the cottage in Britain and America / John Crowley -- Vase mania / Jenny Uglow -- Performing Roxane : the Oriental woman as the sign of luxury in eighteenth-century fictions / Ros Ballaster -- Luxury, satire and prostitute narratives / Vivien Jones -- Luxury, industry and charity : bluestocking culture displayed / Elizabeth Eger -- Luxuries or not? Consumption of silk and porcelain in eighteenth-century China / Shelagh Vainker -- Luxury, clothing and race in colonial Spanish America / Rebecca Earle -- Asian luxuries and the making of the European consumer revolution / Maxine Berg. |
| Subject |
Luxury -- History -- 18th century.
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Wealth -- History -- 18th century.
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Economic history -- 1600-1750.
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Economic history -- 1750-1918.
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| Added Author |
Berg, Maxine, 1950-
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Eger, Elizabeth.
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| ISBN |
0333963822 |
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9780333963821 |
| Standard No. |
UKM bA317368 |
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NLGGC 240734394 |
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YDXCP 100297372 |
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