Consuming Splendor. Society and culture in seventeenth century England
Details:
- Author(s) Peck, Linda Levy
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2005
- Pages 431pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Consumption, consumerism & associated ethics
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly account dealing with aspects of luxury consumption in the 17th century, largely c1600-c70, and the origins of consumer society, focusing especially on the experience of London. Addresses issues such as how luxury consumption was based on importation; how it was facilitated by new ways of shopping; the relationship that came to exist between luxury, technology and science; enthusiasms for building, furnishing and collecting; etc. Embraces the merchant; the retailer; the customer; the poor who used luxury goods secondhand; etc