France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century by Walton, Whitney

France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520076921)

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France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century by Walton, Whitney

France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century

$57.95
France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century by Walton, Whitney

France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century

$57.95
Format: Hardcover
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Whitney Walton approaches the nineteenth-century French industrial development from a new perspective-that of consumption. She analyzes the French performance at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to illustrate how bourgeois consumers influenced France's distinctive pattern of industrial development. She also demonstrates the importance of consumption and gender in class formation and reveals how women influenced industry in their role as consumers.

Walton examines important consumer goods industries that have been rarely studied by historians, such as the manufacture of wallpaper, furniture, and bronze statues. Using archival sources on household possessions of the Parisian bourgeoisie as well as published works, she shows how consumers' taste for fashionable, artistic, well-made furnishings and apparel promoted a specialization unique to nineteenth-century France.

Author: Whitney Walton
ISBN-10: 0520076923
ISBN-13: 9780520076921
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 11/16/1992
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.42w x 0.90d
By Whitney Walton
By Whitney Walton
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Whitney Walton is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University.

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