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
- Ashworth, William J., Customs and excise: trade, production and consumption in England 1640-1845, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003
- Berg, Maxine, Luxury and pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005
- McKendrick, Neil; Brewer, John; Plumb, John Harold, The birth of a consumer society: the commercialization of eighteenth-century England, London, Hutchinson, 1983
Main group 2
- Evans, Chris, Baltic iron and the British iron industry in the eighteenth century, Part of: The economic history review, 2002
- McCants, Anne, "Poor Consumers as Global Consumers: The Diffusion of Tea and Coffee Drinking in the Eighteenth Century", in The Economic History Review, August, 2008
- Shammas, Carole; eds McCusker, John J; Morgan, Kenneth, "The revolutionary impact of European demand for tropical goods.", The Early Modern Atlantic Economy, Cambridge University press, 2000
Main group 3
- 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, 2006
- Auslander, Leora, Taste and power: furnishing modern France, Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, cop. 1996
- Berg, Maxine; Eger, Elizabeth, Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods: in Luxury in the Eighteenth Century, Houndmills, 2003
- Goffman, Erving, The presentation of self in everyday life, London, Penguin, 1990
- 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. 385-408
- North, Michael, "Material delight and the joy of living": cultural consumption in the age of enlightenment in Germany, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008
- Vries, Jan de, Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods: in Luxury in the Eighteenth Century, Houndmills, 2003
- Woodall, Joanna, Sovereign bodies: the reality of status in seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture, Part of: Portraiture: facing the subject, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1997
Main group 4
- Berg, Maxine; Clifford, Helen, "Selling consumption in the eighteenth century: Advertising and the trade card in Britain and France", in Cultural and Social History 4:2, 2007
- Gender, taste, and material culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830, New Haven, Conn. ;a London, Yale University Press, 2007
- Smith, Woodruff D, Consumption and the making of respectability, 1600-1800, New York, Routledge, 2002
- Stobart, Jon, "Selling (Through) Politeness. Advertising Provincial Shops in Eighteenth-Century England", in Cultural and Social History 5:3, 2008
- Vickery, Amanda, "His and Hers: Gender, Consumption and Household Accounting in Eighteenth-Century England", 2006
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