Consumer Society and the Postmodern City
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 30, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415205153
First sentence: According to Wyrwa (1998, 432), the Middle Ages had no single term corresponding to what we now matter-of-factly refer to as 'consumption': 'Only with the advent of mercantilism, devoted to the fiscal interests of the sovereign, does the Latin derivative "consumption" begin to take on real meaning'.