Helen Berry, Jeremy Gregory

Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660-1830 provides a valuable regional perspective on the subject of cultural consumption in eighteenth-century Britain. These essays employ a wide range of scholarly disciplines to look at issues of consumer behaviour and cultural change in early modern England.

Produktdetails

• The History of Retailing and Consumption
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781138263581
• ISBN-10: 1138263583
• Artikelnr.: 68715157

Autorenporträt

Helen Berry, University of Newcastle, UK and Jeremy Gregory, University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Helen Berry and Jeremy Gregory; Was the North-East
different from other areas? The property of everyday consumption in the
late 17th and early 18th centuries, Lorna Scammell; North of the Trent:
images of northern-ness and northern English in the 18th century, Katie
Wales; Spirits in the North-East? Gin and other vices in the long 18th
century, J.A. Chartres; The sociability of the trade guilds of Newcastle
and Durham, 1660-1750: the urban renaissance revisited, Rebecca King; 'A
clumsey Countrey Girl': the material and print culture of Betty Bowes,
Adrian Green; An alternative community in north-east England: Quakers,
morals and popular culture in the long 18th century, Richard C. Allen;
Creating polite space: the organisation and social function of the
Newcastle assembly rooms, Helen Berry; Newcastle's first art exhibitions
and the language of civic humanism, Paul Usherwood; Index.