Michael Kwass (Maryland The Johns Hopkins University)

The Consumer Revolution, 1650-1800

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A bold new interpretation of the 'consumer revolution' in the eighteenth century, when European elites, middling classes, and even certain labourers purchased unprecedented quantities of clothing, household goods, and colonial products. This volume examines globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of abolitionism and revolution.

Produktdetails

• New Approaches to European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 227mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780521139595
• ISBN-10: 0521139597
• Artikelnr.: 62436350

Autorenporträt

Michael Kwass is a Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France: Liberté, Égalité, Fiscalité (Cambridge, 2000), which received the David H. Pinkney Prize; and Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground (2014), which was awarded the J. Russell Major Prize, the Gilbert Chinard Prize, the Annibel Jenkins Prize, and the Oscar Kenshur Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Consumer revolution
2. The globalization of European consumption
3. Going shopping
4. The cultural meanings of consumption
5. Consuming enlightenment
6. The luxury debate
7. The politics of consumption in the age of revolution
Conclusion.