Consuming Splendor

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Consuming Splendor
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 460
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ISBN-10 : 0521842328
ISBN-13 : 9780521842327
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Book Synopsis Consuming Splendor by : Linda Levy Peck

Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.


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