A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe: Display, Acquisition and Boundaries - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Johanna Ilmakunnas, Jon StobartTheme:Chronological Period/18th Century, Chronological Period/19th Century, Cultural Region/Central Europe, Cultural Region/Eastern Europe, Cultural Region/Western EuropePublish date:10/1/2017Pages:336
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781474258234ISBN-10:1474258239UPC:9781474258234Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, Social History, ModernBook Topic:18th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.645Product ID:SC7PVS93B6
Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury and taste in early modern Europe.
In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence and a marker of rank and status. This book takes a fresh, comparative approach to these ideas, drawing together new scholarship to examine three related areas in a wide variety of European contexts. Firstly, the deployment of luxury goods in displays of status and how these practices varied across space and time. Secondly, the processes of communicating and acquiring taste and luxury: how did people obtain tasteful and luxurious goods, and how did they recognise them as such? Thirdly, the ways in which ideas of taste and luxury crossed national, political and economic boundaries: what happened to established ideas of luxury and taste as goods moved from one country to another, and during times of political transformation?
Through the analysis of case studies looking at consumption practices, material culture, political economy and retail marketing, A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe challenges established readings of luxury and taste. This is a crucial volume for any historian seeking a more nuanced understanding of material culture, consumption and luxury in early modern Europe.
In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence and a marker of rank and status. This book takes a fresh, comparative approach to these ideas, drawing together new scholarship to examine three related areas in a wide variety of European contexts. Firstly, the deployment of luxury goods in displays of status and how these practices varied across space and time. Secondly, the processes of communicating and acquiring taste and luxury: how did people obtain tasteful and luxurious goods, and how did they recognise them as such? Thirdly, the ways in which ideas of taste and luxury crossed national, political and economic boundaries: what happened to established ideas of luxury and taste as goods moved from one country to another, and during times of political transformation?
Through the analysis of case studies looking at consumption practices, material culture, political economy and retail marketing, A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe challenges established readings of luxury and taste. This is a crucial volume for any historian seeking a more nuanced understanding of material culture, consumption and luxury in early modern Europe.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781474258234ISBN-10:1474258239UPC:9781474258234Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, Social History, ModernBook Topic:18th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.645Product ID:SC7PVS93B6
Johanna Ilmakunnas is acting Professor of Finnish History at the University of Turku, Finland. She has published widely on eighteenth-century cultural and social history. Her most recent publications include Early Professional Women in Northern Europe, c. 1650-1860 (2017, co-edited with Marjatta Rahikainen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen).
Jon Stobart is Professor of Social History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His most recent publications are Consumption and the Country House: Elite Spending and Identities in Georgian England (2016, co-authored with Mark Rothery) and The Country House: Material Culture and Consumption (2015, co-edited with Andrew Hann). He is also Founding Editor of the new journal, History of Retailing and Consumption.Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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