Luxury and gender in European towns, 1700-1914 / edited by Deborah Simonton, Marjo Kaartinen and Anne Montenach.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781315750170 (e-book : PDF)
9781317611349 (e-book: Mobi)
9781317611356 (e-book: ePub)
9781138803169 (hardback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Routledge, 2015.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (xx, 275 pages)
Dizi
Routledge studies in cultural history ; 32
İçindekiler Notu
pt. 1. Markets and opportunities -- pt. 2. Metropole and province -- pt. 3. Class and status.
Özet, vb.
"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 idea of what constituted luxury and blurring the boundaries of class and status, often in unsettling ways. It moves beyond the moral aspects of luxury and the luxury debates to analyze how the production, distribution, purchase or display of luxury goods could participate in the creation of autonomous selves and thus challenge gender roles"-- Provided by publisher.
Konu
Luxury __ Social aspects __ Europe __ History __ 18th century.
Luxury __ Social aspects __ Europe __ History __ 19th century.
City and town life __ Europe __ History.
Sex role __ Europe __ History.
Social classes __ Europe __ History.
Luxury goods industry __ Europe __ History.
Europe __ Economic conditions __ 1789-1900.
Europe __ Economic conditions __ 18th century.
Europe __ Social conditions __ 1789-1900.
Europe __ Social conditions __ 18th century.
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