Deborah (Hrsg.) Simonton

Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914

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This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage in consumption at some level, thus extending the ide… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kaartinen, Marjo (Hrsg.) / Montenach, Anne (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-317-61135-6
EAN: 9781317611356
Produktnummer: 17043693
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 296 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'522 KB
Abbildungen: 19 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 19 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 7 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Deborah Simonton is an associate professor of British History at the University of Southern Denmark, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a visiting professor at the University of Turku, Finland.Marjo Kaartinen is a professor of cultural history at the University of Turku and the director of the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Anne Montenach is an associate professor of early modern history at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, UMR 7303 TELEMME (13094 Aix-en-Provence, France).