Production and Consumption in English Households, 1600-1750
Details:
- Author(s) Overton, Mark, et al
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2004
- Pages 251pp
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Consumption, consumerism & associated ethics
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Uses evidence taken from 8,000 probate inventories for estates in Cornwall and Kent to explore changes in production and consumption within households and their interrelationship. Sections include: 'Household economies and economic development in early modern England'; 'Probate inventories'; 'Household production'; 'By-employment, women's work and 'unproductive' households'; 'Material culture of consumption'; 'Rooms and room use'; 'Wealth, occupation, status and location'