Luxury and pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain

Luxury and pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain /

The fine mahogany secretaire with its secret drawers, the lacquered tea table, Chinese and Japanese porcelain tea ware. These fine luxury goods now seem to belong to the English country house or the exclusive antique shop. But what do they tell us about their eighteenth-century consumers? Who owned...

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Main Author: Berg, Maxine, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
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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