The Consumer Revolution, 1650–1800

The Consumer Revolution, 1650–1800

Author: Michael Kwass

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-02-03

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0521198704

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A bold new interpretation of 'consumer revolution' in 18th-century Europe, examining globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of Revolution.


The Origins of the Consumer Revolution in England

The Origins of the Consumer Revolution in England

Author: Joanne Sear

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1000765709

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The Origins of the Consumer Revolution in England explores the rise of consumerism from the end of the medieval period through to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The book takes a detailed look at when the 'consumer revolution' began, tracing its evolution from the years following the Black Death through to the nineteenth century. In doing so, it also considers which social classes were included, and how different areas of the country were affected at different times, examining the significant role that location played in the development of consumption. This new study is based upon the largest database of English probate records yet assembled, which has been used in conjunction with a range of other sources to offer a broad and detailed chronological approach. Filling in the gaps within previous research, it examines changing patterns in relation to food and drink, clothing, household furnishings and religion, focussing on the goods themselves to illuminate items in common ownership, rather than those owned only by the elite. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative evidence to explore the development of consumption, The Origins of the Consumer Revolution in England will be of great use to scholars and students of late medieval and early modern economic and social history, with an interest in the development of consumerism in England.


The Consumer Revolution in Urban China

The Consumer Revolution in Urban China

Author: Deborah Davis

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-01-20

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780520216402

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This wide-ranging collection of essays by leading sociologists on the new consumerism of post-economic-reform China is an important contribution to our understanding of Chinese society and culture.


Face Value

Face Value

Author: Cary Carson

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2017-08-03

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0813939380

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The Industrial Revolution was previously understood as having awakened an enormous, unquenchable thirst for material consumption. People up and down the social order had discovered and were indulging in the most extraordinary passion for consumer merchandise in quantities and varieties that had been unimaginable to their parents and grandparents. It was indeed a revolution, but a consumer revolution at the start. In Face Value, Cary Carson expands and updates his groundbreaking earlier work to address the intriguing question of how Americans became the world’s consummate consumers. Prior to the rise of gentry culture in eighteenth-century North America, there was still a decided sameness to people’s material lives. About mid-century, though, a lust for fancy goods, coupled with social aspiration, began to transform American society. Carson here addresses the intriguing question of how Americans developed the reputation for avid consumption. Both elegantly written and engagingly argued, the book reveals how the rise of the gentry culture in eighteenth-century North America gave rise to a consumer economy.


Fashion and the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia

Fashion and the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia

Author: Olga Gurova

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-24

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1135020302

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This book explores how clothing consumption has changed in Russia in the past 20 years as capitalism has grown in a postsocialist state, bringing with it a "consumer revolution." It shows how there has been and continues to be a massive change in the fashion retail market and how ideal lifestyles portrayed in glossy magazines and other media have contributed to the consumer revolution, as have shifts in the social structure and everyday life. Overall, the book, which includes the findings of extensive original research, including in-depth interviews with consumers, relates changes in fashion and retail to changing outlooks, identities, and ideologies in Russia more generally. The mentioned changes are also linked to the theoretical concept of fashion formed in postsocialist society.


China

China

Author: Conghua Li

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Published: 1998-05

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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As China searches for a new identity, its people find themselves bombarded with countless consumer products and services from around the world. But what do they want to buy? What is their spending power? What are their aspirations? How do they spend? This fascinating book provides the first comprehensive analysis of China's complex consumer market. China: The Consumer Revolution discusses cultural issues and socioeconomic forces, fads and fashions, do's and taboos, all supported by a wealth of facts and figures.


The Consuming Temple

The Consuming Temple

Author: Paul Lerner

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2015-04-09

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 150170012X

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Paul Lerner explores German anxieties about the department store and the widespread belief that they posed hidden dangers both to the individuals and to the nation as a whole.


The Industrious Revolution

The Industrious Revolution

Author: Jan de Vries

Publisher:

Published: 2008-05-26

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9780521719254

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This 2008 book traces the evolution of an 'industrious revolution' that fundamentally altered the material cultures of Europe and North America.