Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800
By Woodruff Smith
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-93329-2
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 28th June 2002
- Pages: 352
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About the Book
Tying together of several distinct cultural patterns during this century to create a culture of respectability and its impact on popular culture, trade, politics, social dynamics, and literature, this original and thoughtful work provides a comprehensive and much-needed understanding of the origins of modern consumption and all of its cultural implications.
About the Author(s)
Woodruff Smith is Professor in the department of History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of
Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany, 1840-1920,
The Ideological Origins of Nazi Imperialism, and
European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
