Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century
Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 1994. Softcover. Cream card wraps with blue/white illustration and blue/black lettering. 721 pp. with several bw illustrations, not numbered. VG- (Unbroken spine, clean and bright but with ownership information on half title and light general shelf wear). Item #154003
ISBN: 0813914736
The thirteen contributors address the pressing issues of dining, dress, and lifestyle through an examination of American material culture in the 18th century. Through a dissection of colonial manners, goods, and social institutions, the book traces the rise of America's special brand of aggressive bourgeois consumerism... (dj).
Price: $75.00