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THE BUSINESS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
GENDER, PRACTICE AND SOCIAL POLITICS IN ENGLAND, C.1600-1900 |
| By: |
Beverly Lemire, Kim Latham |
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Hardback |
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£55.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719072220 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719072222 |
| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
17 April, 2006 |
| Series: |
Gender in History |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
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. -- . |
| Synopsis: |
In times past, 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. These strategies promised respectability and greater access to new consumer goods: better clothes and finer furnishings accompanied a newly disciplined behaviour. Therefore, 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. -- . |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations, black & white |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press |
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Returnable |
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