|aConsumption and the world of goods /|cedited by John Brewer and Roy Porter.
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|aLondon ;|aNew York :|bRoutledge,|c1994.
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|axxi, 564 p., [32] p. of plates :|bill., maps ;|c26 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aComing up for air : consumer culture in historical perspective / Jean-Christopher Agnew -- Understanding traditional and modern patterns of consumption in eighteenth-century England : a character-action approach / Colin Campbell -- Consumption : disease of the consumer society? / Roy Porter -- Between purchasing power and the world of goods : understanding the household economy in early modern Europe / Jan de Vries -- European consumption and Asian production in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / John E. Willis, Jr. -- Res et verba : conspicuous consumption in the early modern world / Peter Burke -- Consumption in early modern social thought / Joyce Appleby -- Changes in English and Anglo-American consumption from 1550 to 1800 / Carole Shammas -- The meaning of consumer behaviour in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England / Lorna Weatherill.
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|aThe production and marketing of populuxe goods in eighteenth-century Paris / Cissie Fairchilds -- The meaning of things : interpreting the consumer economy in the eighteenth century / T.H. Breen -- The changing roles of food in the study of consumption / Sidney W. Mintz -- Women and the world of goods : a Lancashire consumer and her possessions, 1751-81 / Amanda Vickery -- Literacy in context : meaning and measurement in early modern England / David Cressy -- Reckoning with commerce : numeracy in eighteenth-century America / Patricia Cline Cohen -- Teaching in the market-place, or 'Caesar adsum jam forte : Pompey aderat' : the retailing of knowledge in provincial England during the eighteenth century / John Money -- The book trade in eastern Europe in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Iaroslav Isaievych -- Selling it to the provinces : news and commerce round eighteenth-century Salisbury / C.Y. Ferdinand.
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|aThe business of political enlightenment in France, 1770-1800 / Jeremy D. Popkin -- Reading and writing with nature : a materialist approach to French formal gardens / Chandra Mukerji -- Presuming images and consuming words : the visualization of knowledge from the Enlightenment to post-modernism / Barbara Maria Stafford -- Perishable commodities : Dutch still-life paintings and the 'empire of things' / Simon Schama -- The consuming flame : electrical showmen and Tory mystics in the world of goods / Simon Schaffer -- Manufacturing, consumption and design in eighteenth-century England / John Styles.
And while history written from a production viewpoint has, by chance or design, largely been centred on the work of men, consumption history helps to restore ...