A History of Everyday Things
Subtitle: The Birth of Consumption in France, 16001800
Contributors: Brian Pearce (Translator)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521633598
Subjects: Anthropology; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Europe - General; Consumer Behavior - General; Business & Economics; Reference; Trivia; Business/Economics; Europe; History; Consumption (Economics)--History; History / Europe / General; History-Europe - General; Reference / Trivia; Consumer behavior; Consumption (Economics); Social history
First sentence: In the society of the Ancien Regime, as in other societies, the relation between production and consumption was based upon an asymmetrical relation.