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Author: Maxine Berg (, Professor of History, University of Warwick)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.844kg
ISBN: 9780199272082
ISBN 10: 0199272085
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 30 June 2005
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
...deserves to be the final word on the luxury debate in Britian Martyn Powell, Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature Luxury and Pleasure is an interesting, accessible and well-illustrated synthesis of new research and recent writing, and helpfully concludes by pointing to further areas of research Hannah Smith, History Journal She aims to re-connect product and process, and succeeds triumphantly. Massive detail, briskly summarized, is subordinated to a series of arguments that give this powerful but combative work its freshness. Toby Barnard, TLS ...rewarding account... Toby Barnard, Times Literary Supplement It offers fresh insights not only into the character and motivations of American consumers, but also the broader social and cultural relationships between Britain and her (ex-)colonies. Urban History Journal, Vol. 34/1 Readers will find this book valuable Joyce Burnette, English Historical Review
...deserves to be the final word on the luxury debate in Britian Martyn Powell, Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature Luxury and Pleasure is an interesting, accessible and well-illustrated synthesis of new research and recent writing, and helpfully concludes by pointing to further areas of research Hannah Smith, History Journal She aims to re-connect product and process, and succeeds triumphantly. Massive detail, briskly summarized, is subordinated to a series of arguments that give this powerful but combative work its freshness. Toby Barnard, TLS ...rewarding account... Toby Barnard, Times Literary Supplement It offers fresh insights not only into the character and motivations of American consumers, but also the broader social and cultural relationships between Britain and her (ex-)colonies. Urban History Journal, Vol. 34/1 Readers will find this book valuable Joyce Burnette, English Historical Review
Author Information
Maxine Berg is Professor of History at the University of Warwick where she has taught since 1978. She is also Director of the Warwick Eighteenth-Century Centre and has recently become a Fellow of the British Academy. Currently writing on global history and the history of luxury and consumer culture, she has also published widely on women's history and on the economic and social history of the Industrial Revolution.
