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

by Daniel Roche

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521633591

ISBN13:9780521633598

Release Date:January 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 9.4"

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