Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods

by Maxine Berg (Editor), ElizabethEger (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $106.24

  'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic.