Consumption and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5HA815
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Andersson, Gudrun, A mirror of Oneself: Possessions and the Manifestations of Status among a Local Swedish Elite, 1650-1770, Part of: Cultural and social history, 2006Compulsory (24 pages)
- Cohen, Joanna, Promoting Pleasure as Political Economy: The Transformation of American Advertising, 1800-1850, Part of: Winterthur portfolio: a journal of American material culture, vol. 48, no. 2/3, 2014, p. 163–189Compulsory ((available on-line via Uppsala University Library). 26 pages)
- Goffman, Erving, The presentation of self in everyday life, London, Penguin, 1990Compulsory (101 pages)
- Howell, Martha C., Commerce before capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010Compulsory (300 pages)
- Kross, Jessica, Mansions, men, women, and the creation of multiple publics in eighteenth-century British North America, Part of: Journal of social history, 33(1999):2, s. 385-408Compulsory (24 pages)
- North, Michael, "Material delight and the joy of living": cultural consumption in the age of enlightenment in Germany, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008Compulsory (36 pages)
- Rublack, Ulinka, Dressing up: cultural identity in Renaissance Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010Compulsory
- Smith, Woodruff D, Consumption and the making of respectability, 1600-1800, New York, Routledge, 2002Compulsory (295 pages)
- Stobart, Jon, "Selling (Through) Politeness. Advertising Provincial Shops in Eighteenth-Century England", in Cultural and Social History 5:3, 2008Compulsory (20 pages)
- Stobart, Jon; Rothery, Mark, Consumption and the country house, First edition., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016Compulsory (60 pages)
- Styles, John, Lodging at the Old Bailey: Lodgings and Their Furnishing in Eighteenth-Century London, Part of: Gender, taste, and material culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830, New Haven, Conn. ;a London, Yale University Press, 2007, p. 61–80Compulsory (20 pages)
- Vickery, Amanda, His and Hers: Gender, Consumption and Household Accounting in Eighteenth-Century England, Part of: Past & present.: Supplement, vol. 1, 2006, p. 12–38Compulsory ((Available on-line via Uppsala University Library). 26 pages)
- Woodall, Joanna, Sovereign bodies: the reality of status in seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture, Part of: Portraiture: facing the subject, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1997Compulsory (26 pages)
* Compulsory
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