| A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600 1800 Contributor(s): Roche, Daniel (Author), Pearce, Brian (Translator) |
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ISBN: 052163329X ISBN-13: 9780521633291 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $89.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2000 Annotation: A History of Everyday Things is a pioneering essay by one of the world's leading cultural historians that sheds light on the origins of the consumer society, and thereby the birth of the modern world. Things that we regard as the everyday objects of consumption have not always been so: how, therefore, have people in the modern world become "prisoners of objects," as Rousseau put it? Daniel Roche answers this fundamental question of historical anthropology, and imaginatively explores the origins of the daily furnishings of modern life. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - Business & Economics | Economics - Macroeconomics |
| Dewey: 339.470 |
| LCCN: 99023258 |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.23" W x 9.28" (1.38 lbs) 320 pages |