The Business of Everyday Life: Gender, Practice and Social Politics in England, C.1600–1900 (Gender in History) - Hardcover

Lemire, Beverly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719072220 ISBN 13: 9780719072222

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2006

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Book by Lemire Beverly

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Professor Beverly Lemire has provided a well-argued, solidly researched, and clearly written interpretation of the English material world from pre-industrial to industrial times. This highly accessible study merits close scrutiny by economic and social historians as well as as general readers. Michael J. Galgano, James Madison University, Canadian Journal of History --Michael J. Galgano, James Madison University, Canadian Journal of History

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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. -- .

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• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0719072220
• ISBN 13: 9780719072222
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272