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A Taste For Comfort And Status
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Author : Christine Adams
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
A Taste For Comfort And Status written by Christine Adams and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with History categories.
The Lamothes were an ordinary family in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. Well-to-do and well respected by their neighbors, they were local notables whose private and public lives suggest the importance of family, kin, and friendship networks, professional activities and cultural interests, as well as a desire to serve the public good. In this portrait of the Lamothes, Christine Adams explores the development of middle-class identity among urban professionals and reconsiders the role of this social group in the coming French Revolution. The most striking feature of this family history is that it is based on more than three hundred personal letters that circulated among the Lamothes&—parents and seven siblings&—over a period of twenty-five years. Such a collection is rare for this period, and Adams makes the most of it. Her study lends remarkable texture to provincial middle-class life. She weaves these letters into every aspect of the Lamothes' experience&—professional, literary, intellectual, social, and civic. She demonstrates a sustained mobilization of all family skills and resources to maintain the status of the males of the family and preserve (rather than risk) the family's emotional and material stability. While their conservative lifestyle suggests that the Lamothes were not &"revolutionary,&" they were, nonetheless, part of the bourgeoisie. Adams thus taps into a potent debate about middle-class consciousness and identity in the eighteenth century, arguing against those historians who doubt that such a social class existed in France before 1789.
The Comforts Of Home In Western Europe 1700 1900
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Author : Jon Stobart
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-20
The Comforts Of Home In Western Europe 1700 1900 written by Jon Stobart and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with History categories.
Comfort, both physical and affective, is a key aspect in our conceptualization of the home as a place of emotional attachment, yet its study remains under-developed in the context of the European house. In this volume, Jon Stobart has assembled an international cast of contributors to discuss the ways in which architectural and spatial innovations coupled with the emotional assemblage of objects to create comfortable homes in early modern Europe. The book features a two-section structure focusing on the historiography of architectural and spatial innovations and material culture in the early modern home. It also includes 10 case studies which draw on specific examples, from water closets in Georgian Dublin to wallpapers in 19th-century Cambridge, to illustrate how people made use of and responded to the technological improvements and the emotional assemblage of objects which made the home comfortable. In addition, it explores the role of memory and memorialisation in the domestic space, and the extent to which home comforts could be carried about by travellers or reproduced in places far removed from the home. The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900 offers a fresh contribution to the study of comfort in the early modern home and will be vital reading for academics and students interested in early modern history, material culture and the history of interior architecture.
A Taste For Luxury In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Johanna Ilmakunnas
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-06-29
A Taste For Luxury In Early Modern Europe written by Johanna Ilmakunnas and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-29 with History categories.
Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury and taste in early modern Europe. In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence and a marker of rank and status. This book takes a fresh, comparative approach to these ideas, drawing together new scholarship to examine three related areas in a wide variety of European contexts. Firstly, the deployment of luxury goods in displays of status and how these practices varied across space and time. Secondly, the processes of communicating and acquiring taste and luxury: how did people obtain tasteful and luxurious goods, and how did they recognise them as such? Thirdly, the ways in which ideas of taste and luxury crossed national, political and economic boundaries: what happened to established ideas of luxury and taste as goods moved from one country to another, and during times of political transformation? Through the analysis of case studies looking at consumption practices, material culture, political economy and retail marketing, A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe challenges established readings of luxury and taste. This is a crucial volume for any historian seeking a more nuanced understanding of material culture, consumption and luxury in early modern Europe.
France At The Crystal Palace
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Author : Whitney Walton
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-12-22
France At The Crystal Palace written by Whitney Walton and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-22 with History categories.
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.
A Taste For Home
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Author : Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-04
A Taste For Home written by Toufoul Abou-Hodeib and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-04 with History categories.
The "home" is a quintessentially quotidian topic, yet one at the center of global concerns: Consumption habits, aesthetic preferences, international trade, and state authority all influence the domestic sphere. For middle-class residents of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Beirut, these debates took on critical importance. As Beirut was reshaped into a modern city, legal codes and urban projects pressed at the home from without, and imported commodities and new consumption habits transformed it from within. Drawing from rich archives in Arabic, Ottoman, French, and English—from advertisements and catalogues to previously unstudied government documents—A Taste for Home places the middle-class home at the intersection of local and global transformations. Middle-class domesticity took form between changing urbanity, politicization of domesticity, and changing consumption patterns. Transcending class-based aesthetic theories and static notions of "Westernization" alike, this book illuminates the self-representations and the material realities of an emerging middle class. Toufoul Abou-Hodeib offers a cultural history of late Ottoman Beirut that is at once global in the widest sense of the term and local enough to enter the most private of spaces.
Encourager Le Commerce Et R Pandre Les Lumi Res
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Author : Stephen Auerbach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Encourager Le Commerce Et R Pandre Les Lumi Res written by Stephen Auerbach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with France categories.
Journal Of Women S History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Journal Of Women S History written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Electronic journals categories.
The Work Of France
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Author : James Richard Farr
language : en
Publisher: Critical Issues in World and International History
Release Date : 2008
The Work Of France written by James Richard Farr and has been published by Critical Issues in World and International History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
"This clearly written and deeply informed book explores the nature and meaning of work in early modern France. Distinguished historian James R. Farr considers the relationship between material life-specifically the work activities of both men and women-and the culture in which these activities were embedded. This culture, he argues, helped shape the nature of work, invested it with meaning, and fashioned the identities of people across the social spectrum." "Farr vividly traces the daily lives of peasants, common laborers, domestic servants, prostitutes, street vendors, craftsmen and -women, merchants, men of the law, medical practitioners, and government officials. Work was recognized and valued as a means to earn a living, but it held a greater significance as a cultural marker of honor, identity, and status. Constants and continuities in work activities and their cultural aspects shared space with changes that were so profound and sweeping that France would be forever transformed. The author focuses on three salient, interconnected, and at times conflicting developments: the extension and integration of the market economy, the growth of the state's functions and governing apparatus, and the intensification of social hierarchy."--BOOK JACKET.
Report Of The Public Schools Of The State Of Missouri
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
Report Of The Public Schools Of The State Of Missouri written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with Education categories.
Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The State Of Missouri At The Session Of The General Assembly
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Author : Missouri. General Assembly. House of Representatives
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861
Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The State Of Missouri At The Session Of The General Assembly written by Missouri. General Assembly. House of Representatives and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with Missouri categories.
Issued with appendix.