At home with the poor: Consumer behaviour and material culture in England, c.1650-1850 (Studies in Design and Material Culture) - Softcover

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Harley, Joseph

9781526194749: At home with the poor: Consumer behaviour and material culture in England, c.1650-1850 (Studies in Design and Material Culture)

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ISBN 10: 1526194740 ISBN 13: 9781526194749

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2026

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This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c. 1650-1850). Using a vast and diverse range of sources, it gets to the very heart of what it meant to be 'poor' by examining the homes of the impoverished and mapping how numerous household goods became more widespread. As the book argues, poverty did not necessarily equate to owning very little and living in squalor. In fact, its novel findings show that most of the poor strove to improve their domestic spheres and that their demand for goods was so great that it was a driving force of the industrial revolution.

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Joseph Harley is a Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

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This fascinating book takes us inside the homes of the forgotten poor in the period before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a wide range of sources, it gets to the heart of what it meant to be ‘poor’ by examining the residences of the impoverished and mapping how various household goods became more widespread over time.

As the book shows, poverty did not necessarily equate to owning very little and living in squalor. Most poor people strove to improve their homes by making them more comfortable, convenient and respectable through new consumer goods. These important findings illustrate that the poor were not left behind while the middling sort and the elite became obsessed with new goods and the home. In fact, demand for goods from the poor was so great that it became a driving force of the industrial revolution.

For too long historians have downplayed the role of poor consumers, assuming that they had neither the desire nor the means to buy anything beyond necessities. But as At home with the poor reveals, with each generation, more and more people from poor labouring backgrounds came to own possession their grandparents could only have imagined.

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Verlag: Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN 10: 1526194740
ISBN 13: 9781526194749
Einband: Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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