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Chambre De Commerce
Charles III
consumption patterns Europe
De Dote
eastern
economic anthropology
Eighteenth Century Spain
eighteenth-century Mediterranean consumption shift
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fashions
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global commodity exchange
industrious
industrious revolution debate
inventories
IRU
Jan De Vries
La Mere Coupable
Las Cartas
Las Funciones
Livres Tournois
Martin Gaite
material culture studies
Middle Social Groups
probate
Probate Inventories
probate inventory analysis
revolution
Semi-durable Goods
Social Reaction
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South Eastern Spain
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Spanish Mediterranean
Spanish Mediterranean Areas
Trans-national Approaches
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Young Men
Yun Casalilla
Product details
- ISBN 9781138254657
- Weight: 750g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The birth of a mass consumer society in western Europe has been the subject of much scholarly debate in recent years. In order to come to a further understanding of the issue, this book adopts an analytical approach, paying special attention to the socio-cultural and economic transfers which occur when different commodities are introduced to territories with diverse values and identities. In particular, it examines the role of merchants and their important influence on consumer decisions, describing how they created demand for new necessities in local, national and international markets of the western Mediterranean area. Through a systematic analysis of probate inventories from southern Spain, the study reveals shifts in the patterns of consumption of new goods in urban and rural families, underlining a growing interest in new, exotic and foreign goods. By connecting these local desires, aspirations and choices to a global movement in which human and material capital circulated trans-continentally, broader patterns of consumption are revealed. By observing a southern European society, such as Spain, where the industrialization process was slower than that in Anglo-Saxon territories, the book contributes to the on-going debates about 'industrious revolution' and 'trickle-down' theories and whether both occurred simultaneously or separately. The book also helps identify the socio-economic forces and agents that prompted the stimulus for new consumer aspirations, as well as the cultural consequences that the new modern consumerism brought about.
Manuel Pérez-GarcÃa (www.manuelperezgarcia.eu) is lecturer at Renmin University of China. He graduated in history from the Universidad de Murcia, Spain, obtained his doctorate degree in economic history at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and was visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the book Armas, limpieza de sangre y linaje. Reproducción social de familias poderosas de Murcia (siglos XVI-XIX).
