Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800

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Psychology Press, 2002 - 339 من الصفحات
Tying together of several distinct cultural patterns during this century to create a culture of respectability and its impact on popular culture, trade, politics, social dynamics, and literature, this original and thoughtful work provides a comprehensive and much-needed understanding of the origins of modern consumption and all of its cultural implications.

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CONSUMPTION AND CULTURE
5
Culture and the Contexts of Consumption
9
Cultural Contexts
13
Components of Cultural Contexts
15
Meaning in Cultural Contexts
19
Changes in Cultural Contexts
21
GENTILITY
25
Samuel Pepys Gentleman
27
Coffee and the Context of Rational Masculinity
151
Tobacco
161
DOMESTIC FEMININITY
171
Femininity Domesticity and Separate Spheres
175
Civilization
178
Domesticity and Consumption
181
Breakfast
183
RESPECTABILITY
189

Modes of Gentility
31
Silks and Calicoes
46
Underclothing
60
LUXURY
63
The Context of Luxury in Early Modern Europe
69
Taste
81
Comport and Convenience
83
Spices of Life
86
Sugar
90
The Contexts of Condiment Consumption
92
VIRTUE
105
The Discourse of Virtue
108
Bourgeois Virtue
118
Tea Coffee and Sugar
121
Cleanliness
130
RATIONAL MASCULINITY
139
Coffeehouses
140
Modern Times
191
Respectability Social Structure and Individual Status
204
Respectable Families
210
Respectability Institutions and Professions
212
CONCLUSION
223
Gentility Luxury and Virtue
224
Makers of Respectability
226
Rational Masculinity and Domestic Femininity
233
Implications and Further Questions
237
NOTES
247
APPENDIX
297
BIBLIOGRAPHY
307
Primary Sources
309
Secondary Sources
315
INDEX
333
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Woodruff Smith is Professor in the department of History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany, 1840-1920, The Ideological Origins of Nazi Imperialism, and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

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