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Title: A HISTORY OF EVERYDAY THINGS
THE BIRTH OF CONSUMPTION IN FRANCE, 1600-1800
By: Daniel Roche, Brian Pearce (Trans)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 052163329X
ISBN 13: 9780521633291
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 9 March, 2000
Pages: 320
Translated from: French
Description: Daniel Roche examines the birth of the consumer society via an examination of the history of everyday things.
Synopsis: Things which we regard as the everyday objects of consumption (and hence re-purchase), and essential to any decent, civilised lifestyle, have not always been so: in former times, everyday objects would have passed from one generation to another, without anyone dreaming of acquiring new ones. How, therefore, have people in the modern world become 'prisoners of objects', as Rousseau put it? The celebrated French cultural historian Daniel Roche answers this fundamental question using insights from economics, politics, demography and geography, as well as his own extensive historical knowledge. Professor Roche places familiar objects and commodities - houses, clothes, water - in their wider historical and anthropological contexts, and explores the origins of some of the daily furnishings of modern life. A History of Everyday Things is a pioneering essay that sheds light on the origins of the consumer society and its social and political repercussions, and thereby the birth of the modern world.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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