Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1: Luxury, Quality, and Delight
1: The Delights of Luxury
2: Goods from the East
3: Invention, Imitation, and Design
Part 2: How it was Made
4: Glass and Chinaware: The Grammar of the Polite Table
5: Metal Things: Useful Devices and Agreeable Trinkets
Part 3: A Nation of Shoppers
6: The Middling Classes: Acquisitiveness and Self-Respect
7: 'Shopping is a Place to Go': Fashion, Shopping, and Advertising
8: Mercantile Theatres: British Commodities and American Consumers
Conclusion

About the Author

Maxine Berg is Professor of History at the University of Warwick where she has taught since 1978. She is also Director of the Warwick Eighteenth-Century Centre and has recently become a Fellow of the British Academy. Currently writing on global history and the history of luxury and consumer culture, she has also published widely on women's history and on the economic and social history of the Industrial Revolution.

Reviews

Luxury and Pleasure is an interesting, accessible and well-illustrated synthesis of new research and recent writing, and helpfully concludes by pointing to further areas of research Hannah Smith, History Journal Readers will find this book valuable Joyce Burnette, English Historical Review