Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Maxine Berg (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2005

  $148.65

  Explores not only how luxury consumer goods transformed the homes of Britain's urban middle classes, but also how their very production fostered and sustained the world's first industrial revolution.

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $62.70

  Explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the 18th century. This book tells the stories and analyses the developments that led from a global trade in Eastern luxuries beginning in the 16th century to the new global trade in British-made consumer goods by the end of the 18th century.