Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800

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Psychology Press, 2002 - 339 Seiten
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.
 

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Introduction
1
1 Consumption and Culture
5
2 Gentility
25
3 Luxury
63
4 Virtue
105
5 Rational Masculinity
139
6 Domestic Femininity
171
7 Respectability
189
8 Conclusion
223
Notes
247
Appendix
297
Bibliography
307
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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.

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