Author: M. Berg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-11

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0230508278

'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic.