TY - BOOK AU - Berg,Maxine TI - Luxury and pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain SN - 9780191695933 (ebook) : AV - HC260.C6 U1 - 339.47094109033 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Consumer goods KW - Luxury goods industry KW - Affluent consumers KW - Middle class KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Maxine Berg explains how luxury possessions became a central part of 18th-century/middle-class British life. The book explores who owned these goods, what made them desirable, where they came from, and how they were made UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199215287.001.0001 ER -