Consumers and luxury : consumer culture in Europe 1650-1850 / edited by Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford.
Contributor(s): Berg, Maxine
| Clifford, Helen.
Material type: 
BookPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1999Description: xi, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0719052742.Subject(s): Consumers | Consumer behavior | LuxuryDDC classification: 306
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 306 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00087814 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Rethinking Right-Wing Women explores the institutional structures for and the representations, mobilisation, and the political careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late 19th century. From the Primrose League (est.1883) to Women2Win (est.2005), the party has exploited women's political commitment and their social power from the grass-roots to the heights of the establishment. Yet, although it is the party that extended the equal franchise, had the first woman MP to sit Parliament, and produced the first two women Prime Ministers, the UK Conservative Party has developed political roles for women that jar with feminist and progressive agendas. Conservative women have tended to be more concerned about the fulfilment of women's duties than the realisation of women's rights. This book tackles the ambivalences between women's politicisation and women's emancipation in the history of Britain's most electorally successful and hegemonic political party.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of illustrations (p. vii)
- List of contributors (p. x)
- Preface (p. xii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part 1 Luxury and necessity
- 1 Adam Smith's accommodation of 'altogether endless' desires (p. 18)
- 2 Sans-culottes, sans cafe, sans tabac: shifting realms of necessity and luxury in eighteenth-century France (p. 37)
- 3 New commodities, luxuries and their consumers in eighteenth-century England (p. 63)
- Part 2 Novelty and imitation
- 4 In the name of the tulip. Why speculation? (p. 88)
- 5 Colours and colour making in the eighteenth century (p. 103)
- Part 3 Public and private
- 6 Jewellery in eighteenth-century England (p. 120)
- 7 A commerce with things: the value of precious metalwork in early modern England (p. 147)
- Part 4 Excess, taste and fashion
- 8 Making a science of taste: the Revolution, the learned life and the invention of 'gastronomie' (p. 170)
- 9 'Quality always distinguishes itself': Louis Hippolyte LeRoy and the luxury clothing industry in early nineteenth-century Paris (p. 183)
- Part 5 Identity and display
- 10 Romanticism and the urge to consume in the first half of the nineteenth century (p. 208)
- 11 The National Gallery in London and its public (p. 228)
- Index (p. 251)