Selling textiles in the long Eighteenth Century : comparative perspectives from Western Europe /

Selling textiles in the long Eighteenth Century : comparative perspectives from Western Europe / edited by Jon Stobart and Bruno Blondé

Textiles are a key component of the industrial, industrious and consumer revolutions, which are seen as transforming the economy, society and culture of Western Europe during the long eighteenth century. Yet we lack a coherent picture of how the marketing of textiles varied across time and between d...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Stobart, Jon, 1966- (Editor), Blondé, B. (Bruno), 1964- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Textile industry > Europe, Western > History > 18th century.
Textile industry.
Western Europe.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Selling Textiles in the Eighteenth Century: Perspectives on Consumer and Retail Change/ Bruno Blondé and Jon Stobart
  • An Education in Comfort: Indian Textiles and the Remaking of English Homes over the Long Eighteenth Century / Beverly Lemire
  • Making the Bed in later Stuart and Georgian England / Sara Pennell
  • Customers and Markets for 'New' Textiles in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Sweden / Lili-Annè Aldman
  • The International Textile Trade in the Austrian Netherlands, 1750-1791/ Ann Coenen
  • Material Marketing: How Lyonnais Silk Manufacturers Sold Silks, 1660-1789 / Lesley Ellis Miller
  • Rural Retailing of Textiles in Early Nineteenth-century Sweden / Anna Brismark and Pia Lundqvist
  • New Products, New Sellers? Changes in the Dutch Textile Trades, c. 1650-1750 / Danielle van den Heuvel
  • 'According to the latest and most elegant fashion': Retailing Textiles and Changes in Supply and Demand in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Antwerp / Bruno Blondé, Laura Van Aert and Ilja Van Damme
  • Taste and Textiles: Selling Fashion in Eighteenth-century Provincial England / Jon Stobart
  • Luxury and Revolution: Selling High Status Sarments in Revolutionary France / Natacha Coquery
  • Second-hand Trade and Respectability: Mediating Consumer Trust in Old Textiles and Used Clothing (Low Countries, Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries) / Ilja Van Damme
  • Urban Markets for Used Textiles: Examples from Eighteenth-century Central Europe / Georg Stöger.

Similar Items