[PDF.56ay] A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800

A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800

[PDF.cm96] A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800

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 | #1785243 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2000-03-28 | Original language:French | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.71 x5.98l,1.02 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| A master historian richly paints life in 18th-century France|By A Customer|French historian Daniel Roche meticulously researches the everyday material culture of eighteenth-century France to create a subtle and nuanced picture of the lives of everyday people of the period. By examining developments such as plumbing and lighting in various urban and rural sections of France,| |"Excellent and provocative....The text is clear and well organized, and the translation is excellent." Journal of Anthropological Research

"To read Roche is to see les choses banales-"everyday things"-in a new light, to understand their evolution,

A History of Everyday Things is a pioneering essay by one of the world's leading cultural historians that sheds light on the origins of the consumer society, and thereby the birth of the modern world. Things that we regard as the everyday objects of consumption have not always been so: how, therefore, have people in the modern world become "prisoners of objects," as Rousseau put it? Daniel Roche answers this fundamental question of historical anthropology, and imaginativ...

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