{"product_id":"consuming-splendor-society-and-culture-in-seventeenth-century-england-hardback-9780521842327","title":"Consuming Splendor; Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England (Hardback) 9780521842327","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eConsuming Splendor\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSociety and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA fascinating study of the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLinda Levy Peck (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521842327, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 September 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e448 pages, 48 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 2.5 cm, 1.12 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'There is no doubt that Linda Levy Peck has produced a major new work on the society and the economy of late sixteenth century England. She has offered new thoughts on the constitutions of luxury and its uses. peck has pushed the accepted advent of the division of retail shopping from wholesale and manufacturers forward by about one hundred years. At the same time she has caused a rethink on the effect of the English Civil wars and the Interregnum on trade and consumption of luxury. Consuming Splendor  is well footnoted and has an extensive bibliography to and index. It would make a worthy addition to any interested party's bookshelf and at 320 (hardback) its a steal.' Open History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA fascinating study of the ways in which the consumption of luxury goods transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. Linda Levy Peck charts the development of new ways of shopping; new aspirations and identities shaped by print, continental travel, and trade to Asia, Africa, the East and West Indies; new building, furnishing, and collecting; and the new relationship of technology, luxury and science. As contemporaries eagerly appropriated and copied foreign material culture, the expansion of luxury consumption continued across the usual divide of the Civil War and the Interregnum and helped to propel England from the margins to the center of European growth and innovation. Her findings show for the first time the seventeenth-century origins of consumer society and she offers the reader a novel framework for the history of seventeenth-century England.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. 'I must have a pair of Damasked spurs': shopping in seventeenth-century London\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'We may as well be silk-masters as sheep-masters': transferring technology in seventeenth-century England\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'What do you lack? What isn't you buy?': creating new wants\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Anything that is strange': from rarities to luxury goods\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Examine but my humors in buildings, gardening, and private expenses': cultural exchange and the new built environment\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'The pictures I desire to have … must be exquisitely done and by the best masters': luxury and war: 1640–60\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'Rome's artists in this nature can do no more': a Bernini in Chelsea\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'The largest, best built, and richest city in the world': The Royal Society, luxury manufactures, and aristocratic identity\u003cbr\u003e 9. New wants, new wares: luxury consumption, cultural change, and economic transformation.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], British \u0026amp; Irish history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on British \u0026amp; Irish history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22British%20\u0026amp;%20Irish%20history%20%5BHBJD1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909144043800,"sku":"9780521842327","price":87.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521842327i_c669173c-5a8d-4468-af28-c028407496fb.jpg?v=1691368729","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/consuming-splendor-society-and-culture-in-seventeenth-century-england-hardback-9780521842327","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}