cam a22 4500 551361751 CHVBK 20201114033504.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 151116s2016 enka sb 001 0deng d 2015957362 978-0-19-872626-5 (hardcover) (SERSOL)ssj0001732243 (WaSeSS)ssj0001732243 DLC eng DLC WaSeSS rda HC254.5 .S84 2016 Stobart Jon 1966- author Consumption and the country house Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom New York, NY Oxford University Press 2016 1 online resource (x, 304 pages) illustrations text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. "This study explores the consumption practices of the landed aristocracy of Georgian England. Focussing on three families and drawing on detailed analysis of account books, receipted bills, household inventories, diaries and correspondence, Consumption and the Country House charts the spending patterns of this elite group during the so-called consumer revolution of the eighteenth century. Generally examined through the lens of middling families, homes and motivations, this book explores the ways in which the aristocracy were engaged in this wider transformation of English society. Analysis centres on the goods that the aristocracy purchased, both luxurious and mundane; the extent to which they pursued fashionable modes and goods; the role that family and friends played in shaping notions of taste; the influence of gender on taste and refinement; the geographical reach of provisioning and the networks that lay behind this consumer activity, and the way this all contributed to the construction of the country house. The country house thus emerges as much more than a repository of luxury and splendour; it lay at the heart of complex networks of exchange, sociability, demand, and supply. Exploring these processes and relationships serves to reanimate the country house, making it an active site of consumption rather than simply an expression of power and taste, and drawing it into the mainstream of consumption histories. At the same time, the landed aristocracy are shown to be rounded consumers, driven by values of thrift and restraint as much as extravagant desires, and valuing the old as well as the new, not least as markers of their pedigree and heritance"--Publisher description. Consumption (Economics) Social aspects England History 18th century Home economics England History 18th century Country homes England History 18th century Aristocracy (Social class) England History 18th century Aristocracy (Social class) England Biography Homeowners England History 18th century Families England History 18th century Gentry England History 18th century England Economic conditions 18th century England Social life and customs 18th century Rothery Mark 1973- co-author https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198726265.001.0001/acprof-9780198726265 Uni Basel: Volltext https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198726265.001.0001/acprof-9780198726265 Uni Basel: Volltext https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198726265.001.0001/acprof-9780198726265 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 University Press Scholarship Online History Collection Oxford Scholarship Online History E-Books von 360MarcUpdates Oxford Scholarship Online IDSBB A145 A145 145VT IDSBB A145 A145 145VT IDSBB B405 B405 405VT NELB4052004 IDSBB 100 1- Stobart Jon 1966- author IDSBB 700 1- Rothery Mark 1973- co-author IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198726265.001.0001/acprof-9780198726265 Uni Basel: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198726265.001.0001/acprof-9780198726265 Uni Basel: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198726265.001.0001/acprof-9780198726265 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 414536118