Bourgeois Consumption by Rachel Rich
Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity. This engaging treatise about how class and gender informed peoples eating habits focuses on the complex interactions between bodies, ritual and identity. -- .'A thoroughly researched comparative study of 19th-century bourgeois dining culture through the interpretive lens of transnational identity formation... Rich's book shines in its wealth of observations on the particulars of middle-class dining culture, including explanations for the origins ...Summing Up: Recommended.'
B. L. Herman, CHOICE, 01/04/2012
Rachel Rich teaches history at Leeds Metropolitan University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780719081125 |
| ISBN 10 | 0719081122 |
| Title | Bourgeois Consumption |
| Author | Rachel Rich |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2011-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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