Material Goods, Moving Hands by Kate Smith

Material Goods, Moving Hands by Kate Smith

In eighteenth-century Britain, greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever-greater quantities. As consumers rather than producers, how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change? Material goods and moving hands combines material culture and visual culture approaches to explore the different ways in which manufacturers and retailers presented production to consumers during the eighteenth century. It shows how new relationships with production processes encouraged consumers, retailers, designers, manufacturers and workers to develop conflicting understandings of production. Objects then were not just markers of fashion and taste, they acted as important conduits through which people living in Georgian Britain could examine and discuss their material world and the processes and knowledge that rendered it. -- .

'The images are plentiful, and the book is well producedThe readability and utility of the book is enhanced greatly by its concise and well-honed argument, which builds in a useful way throughout. Each chapter uses different sources and approaches whilst also taking the chronology of the book forwards to its 1850 end point. Drawing on approaches from visual and material culture alongside diaries, pamphlets and business records, this book has much to offer historians interested in design, work, consumption and the senses.'
Cultural and Social History

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Kate Smith is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century History at the University of Birmingham

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ISBN 13	9780719090677
ISBN 10	0719090679
Titel	Material Goods, Moving Hands
Autor	Kate Smith
Serie	Studies In Design And Material Culture
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2014-10-31
Seitenanzahl	200
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