Material Goods, Moving Hands : Perceiving Production in England, 1700-1830 Hardback
by Kate Smith
Part of the Studies in Design and Material Culture series
Hardback
Description
In eighteenth-century Britain, greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever-greater quantities.
As consumers rather than producers, how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change?
Material goods and moving hands combines material culture and visual culture approaches to explore the different ways in which manufacturers and retailers presented production to consumers during the eighteenth century.
It shows how new relationships with production processes encouraged consumers, retailers, designers, manufacturers and workers to develop conflicting understandings of production.
Objects then were not just markers of fashion and taste, they acted as important conduits through which people living in Georgian Britain could examine and discuss their material world and the processes and knowledge that rendered it. -- .
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages, Illustrations, black & white
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:31/10/2014
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- ISBN:9780719090677
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages, Illustrations, black & white
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:31/10/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780719090677
