The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England

By J.H. Plumb, Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, et al.

Book Overview

This enormously influential book by three leading historians was a revolution in the understanding of commercialisation and the economy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and the consumer revolution. Neil McKendrick studies the fashion and the pottery industries, and created a new framework for enquiring into fundamental issues. John Brewer examines the commercialisation and politics. J.H. Plumb considers the social; changes brought about by commercialization, looking in particular at leisure, the new world' of children, and the acceptance of modernity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912224267
• ISBN13: 9781912224265
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"