Consumption and the World of Goods
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2005
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Consumption and the World of Goods offers a new interpretation of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one that shapes a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services. Leading specialists from North America and Europe focus on problems of methodology and historiography, goods and consumption, production and the meaning of possessions, literacy and numeracy, books, newspapers, objects and images. The result is a rich new direction in early modern cultural and social history. John Brewer is Professor of Cultural History at the European University Institute in Florence. Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Consumption and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries Edited by John Brewer. The study of past society in terms of what is consumes rather than what it produces is a recent development. Under the direction of John Brewer, the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and the Clark Liberary at UCLA have created an ambitious international programme which analyses the material culture of that period perceived through patterns of consumption of goods and services. 1200 gr.…
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- Title
- Consumption and the World of Goods
- Author
- Brewer,John; Porter,Roy
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- Nuevo
- Book Type
- Libro
- Binding
- Blanda
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0415114780
- ISBN 13
- 9780415114783
- Illustrator
- No Aplica
- Edition
- 0.
- Item weight
- 1,200 grams
- Dimensions
- 18x25,5x3
The study of past society in terms of what it consumes rather than what it produces is - relatively speaking - a new development. The focus on consumption changes the whole emphasis and structure of historical enquiry. While human beings usually work within a single trade or industry as producers, as, say, farmers or industrial workers, as consumers they are active in many different markets or networks. And while history written from a production viewpoint has, by chance or design, largely been centred on the work of men, consumption history helps to restore women o the mainstream.
The history of consumption demands a wide range of skills. It calls upon the methods and techniques of many other disciplines, including archaeology, sociology, social and economic history, anthropology and art criticism. But it is not simply a melting-pot of techniques and skills, brought to bear on a past epoch. Its objectives amount to a new description of a past culture in its totality, as perceived through its patterns of consumption in goods and services.
Consumption and the World of Goods is the first of three volumes to examine history from this perspective, and is a unique collaboration between twenty-six leading subject specialists from Europe and North America. The outcome is a new interpretation of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one that shapes a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services.
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