Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 write by Deborah Simonton. This book was released on 2014-09-04. Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage in consumption at some level, thus extending the idea of what constituted luxury and blurring the boundaries of class and status, often in unsettling ways. It moves beyond the moral aspects of luxury and the luxury debates to analyze how the production, distribution, purchase or display of luxury goods could participate in the creation of autonomous selves and thus challenge gender roles.
Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914
Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 write by Deborah Simonton. This book was released on 2014-09-04. Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage in consumption at some level, thus extending the idea of what constituted luxury and blurring the boundaries of class and status, often in unsettling ways. It moves beyond the moral aspects of luxury and the luxury debates to analyze how the production, distribution, purchase or display of luxury goods could participate in the creation of autonomous selves and thus challenge gender roles.
The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience
The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience write by Deborah Simonton. This book was released on 2017-02-03. The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Play, thrills, danger and excitement
Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit
Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit write by Klas Nyberg. This book was released on 2020-11-29. Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust, in the context of fashion and trade, were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution. Luxury, fashion and social standing are intimately connected to consumption on credit. Drawing on data from the fashion trade, this fascinating edited volume shows how the concepts of credit, trust and bankruptcy changed towards the end of the early modern period (1500−1800) and in the beginning of the modern period. Focusing on Sweden, with comparative material from France and other European countries, this volume draws together emerging and established scholars from across the fields of economic history and fashion. This book is an essential read for scholars in economic history, financial history, social history and European history.
Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century Sweden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century Sweden write by Mikael Alm. This book was released on 2021-07-26. Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century Sweden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The interplay between clothes and social order in early modern societies is well known. Differences in dress and hierarchies of appearances coincided with and structured social hierarchies and notions of difference. However, clothes did not merely reproduce set social patterns. They were agents of change, actively used by individuals and groups to make claims and transgress formal boundaries. This was not least the case for the revolutionary decades of the late eighteenth century, the period in focus of this book. Unlike previous studies on sumptuary laws and other legal actions taken by governments and formal power holders, this book offers a broader and more everyday perspective on late eighteenth-century sartorial discourse. In 1773, there was a publicly announced prize competition on the advantages and disadvantages of a national dress in Sweden. Departing from the submitted replies, the study opens a window onto the sartorial world. Several fields of cultural history are brought together: social culture in terms of order, hierarchies, and notions of difference; sartorial culture with contemporary views on dress and moral aspects of sartorial practices; and visual culture in terms of sartorial means of making a difference and the emphasis on the necessity of a legible social order.
