Luxury and pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain [electronic resource] / Maxine Berg.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 373 p.) : ill., maps.ISBN: 9780191695933 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Consumer goods -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Luxury goods industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Affluent consumers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Middle class -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
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.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.