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A bold new interpretation of 'consumer revolution' in 18th-century Europe, examining globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of Revolution.
Author : Michael Kwass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521198704
A bold new interpretation of 'consumer revolution' in 18th-century Europe, examining globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of Revolution.
Author : Joanne Sear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000765709
The Origins of the Consumer Revolution in England explores the rise of consumerism from the end of the medieval period through to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The book takes a detailed look at when the 'consumer revolution' began, tracing its evolution from the years following the Black Death through to the nineteenth century. In doing so, it also considers which social classes were included, and how different areas of the country were affected at different times, examining the significant role that location played in the development of consumption. This new study is based upon the largest database of English probate records yet assembled, which has been used in conjunction with a range of other sources to offer a broad and detailed chronological approach. Filling in the gaps within previous research, it examines changing patterns in relation to food and drink, clothing, household furnishings and religion, focussing on the goods themselves to illuminate items in common ownership, rather than those owned only by the elite. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative evidence to explore the development of consumption, The Origins of the Consumer Revolution in England will be of great use to scholars and students of late medieval and early modern economic and social history, with an interest in the development of consumerism in England.
Author : Deborah Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520216402
This wide-ranging collection of essays by leading sociologists on the new consumerism of post-economic-reform China is an important contribution to our understanding of Chinese society and culture.
Author : John Trenchard
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 1748
Category : Church and state
ISBN :
Author : Conghua Li
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 1998-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
As China searches for a new identity, its people find themselves bombarded with countless consumer products and services from around the world. But what do they want to buy? What is their spending power? What are their aspirations? How do they spend? This fascinating book provides the first comprehensive analysis of China's complex consumer market. China: The Consumer Revolution discusses cultural issues and socioeconomic forces, fads and fashions, do's and taboos, all supported by a wealth of facts and figures.
Author : Cary Carson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0813939380
The Industrial Revolution was previously understood as having awakened an enormous, unquenchable thirst for material consumption. People up and down the social order had discovered and were indulging in the most extraordinary passion for consumer merchandise in quantities and varieties that had been unimaginable to their parents and grandparents. It was indeed a revolution, but a consumer revolution at the start. In Face Value, Cary Carson expands and updates his groundbreaking earlier work to address the intriguing question of how Americans became the world’s consummate consumers. Prior to the rise of gentry culture in eighteenth-century North America, there was still a decided sameness to people’s material lives. About mid-century, though, a lust for fancy goods, coupled with social aspiration, began to transform American society. Carson here addresses the intriguing question of how Americans developed the reputation for avid consumption. Both elegantly written and engagingly argued, the book reveals how the rise of the gentry culture in eighteenth-century North America gave rise to a consumer economy.
Author : Olga Gurova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135020302
This book explores how clothing consumption has changed in Russia in the past 20 years as capitalism has grown in a postsocialist state, bringing with it a "consumer revolution." It shows how there has been and continues to be a massive change in the fashion retail market and how ideal lifestyles portrayed in glossy magazines and other media have contributed to the consumer revolution, as have shifts in the social structure and everyday life. Overall, the book, which includes the findings of extensive original research, including in-depth interviews with consumers, relates changes in fashion and retail to changing outlooks, identities, and ideologies in Russia more generally. The mentioned changes are also linked to the theoretical concept of fashion formed in postsocialist society.
Author : Neil McKendrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Jan de Vries
Publisher :
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521719254
This 2008 book traces the evolution of an 'industrious revolution' that fundamentally altered the material cultures of Europe and North America.
Author : Paul Lerner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 150170012X
Paul Lerner explores German anxieties about the department store and the widespread belief that they posed hidden dangers both to the individuals and to the nation as a whole.