Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain, 1660-1760
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A01=Lorna Weatherill
Author_Lorna Weatherill
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century
Coffee Dealers
Consumption Hierarchy
consumption trends pre-industrial England
Court Inventories
Court Sample
Da Ta
Decorative Goods
domestic
Domestic Durables
drinks
early modern sociology
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eq_history
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Fu Ll
Full
General Living Room
goods
Ho Ld
hot
Hot Drinks
household
household consumption patterns
Inventory Sample
late
Ll Fi
Main Sample
material culture studies
middle
Middle Rank
North West England
North West Midlands
Paul Sandby
Pe Ci
Pewter Dishes
Pewter Plates
probate records analysis
rank
seventeenth
social stratification Britain
Ta Te
Wall Hangings
wealth distribution research
Product details
- ISBN 9780415151849
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is a detailed study of the material lives of the middle classes in the pre-industrial era, a period which saw considerable growth in consumption. Lorna Weatherill has brought her highly important survey up-to-date in the light of new research. She provides a new introduction and bibliography, taking account of the latest academic writing and methodological advances, including computing, and offers further conclusions about her work and its place in current literature.
Three main types of documentation are used to construct the overall picture: diaries, household accounts, and probate inventories. In investigating these sources she interprets the social meaning of material goods; and then goes on to relate this evidence to the social structures of Britain by wealth, status and locality.
Breaking new ground in focusing on households and the use of probate inventories, Weatherill has provided a book which gives both a general account of the domestic environment of the period, and a scholarly analysis of the data on consumption patterns.
