The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-century England

This enormously influential book by three leading historians was a revolution in the understanding of commercialisation and the economy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and the consumer revolution. Neil McKendrick studies the fashion and the pottery industries, and created a new framework for enquiring into fundamental issues. John Brewer examines the commercialisation and politics. J.H. Plumb considers the social; changes brought about by commercialization, looking in particular at leisure, the new world' of children, and the acceptance of modernity.

• | Author: Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, J H Plumb
• | Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• | Publication Date: Oct 19, 2018
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1912224275
• | ISBN-13: 9781912224272