The business of everyday life: Gender, practice and social politics in England, c.1600-1900 (Gender in History) - Softcover

Lemire, Beverly

 
9780719072239: The business of everyday life: Gender, practice and social politics in England, c.1600-1900 (Gender in History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719072239 ISBN 13: 9780719072239
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2012

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The book explores the previously under-researched patterns and practices that fashioned a modern consumer society, charting the evolving habits among English men and women across three centuries.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Beverly Lemire is Professor of History and Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta, Canada.

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From 1600 to 1900 a growing consumerism fired the English economy, shaping the priorities of individuals, and determining the allocation of resources within families.

Everyday business might mean making a trip to the pawnbroker, giving a loan to a trusted friend of selling off a coat, all to make ends meet. Both women and men engaged in this daily budgeting, but women's roles were especially important in achieving some level of comfort and avoiding penury. In some communities, the daily practices in place in the seventeenth century persisted into the twentieth, whilst other groups adopted new ways, such as using numbers to chart domestic affairs and turning to the savings banks that appeared in the nineteenth century.
In the material world of the past and in the changing habits of earlier generations lie crucial turning points. This book explores these previously under-researched patterns and practices that gave shape to modern consumer society.

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From 1600 to 1900 a growing consumerism fired the English economy, shaping the priorities of individuals, and determining the allocation of resources within families. Everyday business might mean making a trip to the pawnbroker, giving a loan to a trusted friend of selling off a coat, all to make ends meet. Both women and men engaged in this daily budgeting, but women s roles were especially important in achieving some level of comfort and avoiding penury. In some communities, the daily practices in place in the seventeenth century persisted into the twentieth, whilst other groups adopted new ways, such as using numbers to chart domestic affairs and turning to the savings banks that appeared in the nineteenth century. In the material world of the past and in the changing habits of earlier generations lie crucial turning points. This book explores these previously under-researched patterns and practices that gave shape to modern consumer society.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719072239
ISBN 13 
9780719072239
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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