{"product_id":"luxury-and-pleasure-in-eighteenth-century-maxine-berg-9780199215287","title":"Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain","description":"\u003cem\u003eLuxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/em\u003e explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth century. It follows these goods, from china tea ware to all sorts of metal ornaments such as candlesticks, cutlery, buckles, and buttons, as they were made and shopped for, then displayed in the private domestic settings of Britain's urban middling classes. It tells the stories and analyses the developments that led from a global trade in Eastern luxuries beginning in the sixteenth century to the new global trade in British-made consumer goods by the end of the eighteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eLuxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/em\u003e is cultural history at its best, built on a fresh empirical base drawn directly from customs accounts, advertising material, company papers, and contemporary correspondence. Maxine Berg traces how this new consumer society of the eighteenth century and the products first traded, then invented to satisfy it, stimulated industrialization itself. Global markets for the consumer goods of private and domestic life inspired the industrial revolution and British products \"won the world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maxine Berg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199215286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199215287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d","brand":"Maxine Berg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054700884223,"sku":"9780199215287","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_463d3781-b3b7-44e9-97bb-1b5458fa264c.jpg?v=1685031482","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/luxury-and-pleasure-in-eighteenth-century-maxine-berg-9780199215287","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}