Product Description

The study of a past society in terms of what it consumes rather than what it produces is a relatively new development. This is the first of three volumes to examine history from this perspective, by 26 leading subject specialists.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #350909 in Books
• Published on: 1994-10-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 654 pages

Review
"There is something for everybody in this...handsome volume, impeccably edited and produced."
-"Times Literary Supplement
"A fascinating book...brought together by two outstanding historians."
-"The Observer
"This book deserves to be widely read."
-"The Financial Times

From the Back Cover
Consumption and the World of Goods offers a new interpretation of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one that shapes a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services. Leading specialists from North America and Europe focus on problems of methodology and historiography, goods and consumption, production and the meaning of possessions, literacy and numeracy, books, newspapers, objects and images. The result is a rich new direction in early modern cultural and social history.

About the Author
Jean-Christophe Agnew Yale University, Joyce Appleby UCLA, T.H. Breen Northwestern University, John Brewer UCLA, Peter Burke Univeristy of Cambridge, Colin Campbell University of York, Patricia Cline Cohen University of California at Santa Barbara, David Cressy, Jan de Vries University of California, Berkeley, Cissie Fairchilds Syracuse University, C.Y. Ferdinand Magdalen College, Oxford, Iaroslav Isaievych Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sidney Mintz John Hopkins University, John Money University of Victoria, British Columbia, Chandra Mukerji University of California, San Diego, Jeremy D. Popkin Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Simon Scaffer Cambridge University