19th century french culture
19th century french society
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absolutism
aesthetics
Author_Leora Auslander
bourgeois style
cabinetmaker
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consumer culture
consumer goods
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eq_history
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european history
france
french revolution
french society
furniture
furniture sellers
gendered furniture
modern france
monarchical power
national economy
old regime style furniture
post revolutionary france
power
productive labor
representation
social class
state formation
studies on the history of society and culture
style
taste making
Product details
- ISBN 9780520213654
- Weight: 816g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Apr 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.
Leora Auslander is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago.
