Dream worlds : mass consumption in late nineteenth-century France / Rosalind H. Williams
1982, 1st edition. Berkeley ; Oxford : University of California Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Some foxing to spine cover. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #404099
ISBN: 0520043553
Physical description; 451 pp, 24 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p. [427]-429. Contents; 1. Implications of the Consumer Revolution -- Part 1. Development of Consumer Lifestyles -- 2. Closed World of Courtly Consumption -- 3. Dream World of Mass Consumption -- 4. Dandies and Elitist Consumption -- 5. Decorative Arts Reform and Democratic Consumption -- Part 2. Development of Critical Thought about Consumption -- 6. From Luxury to Solidarity: The Quest for a Morale of the Consumer -- 7. Charles Gide and the Emergence of Consumer Activism -- 8. Durkheim, Tarde, and the Emergence of a Sociology of Consumption -- 9. Fragment of Future History: Beyond the Consumer Revolution. Subjects; Consumer behavior History. Consommateurs Comportement Histoire. Consumer behavior. HISTORY / Europe / General. Consumers France History. Consumers France History 19th century. France Consumer behaviour 1860-ca 1900 Sociological perspectives.
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