Author: Smith, Woodruff D.
Title: Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800
Description: New York / London, Routledge, (2002). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xi,339 pp.. Minor rubbing. Small label to rear cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Consumption & Culture: Changes in Consumption Patterns in Early Modern Europe; Culture & the Contexts of Consumption; Cultural Contexts; Meaning in Cultural Contexts; Changes in Cultural Contexts; Gentility: Status & Consumption; Samuel Pepys, Gentleman; Modes of Gentility; Silks & Calicoes; Underclothing; Luxury: The Context of Luxury in Early Modern Europe; Taste; Comfort & Convenience; Spice of Life; Sugar; The Contexts of Condiment Consumption; Virtue: Dr. Blankart's Perescription for Healthy Living; The Discourse of Virtue; "Bourgeois" Virtue; Tea, Coffee & Sugar; Cleanliness; Rational Masculinity: Coffeehouses; Coffee & the Context of Rational Masculinity; Tobacco; Domestic Feminity: Tea & Sympathy; Femininity; Domesticity & "Separate Spheres"; Civilization; Domesticity & Consumption; Breakfast; Respectability: Modern Times; Respectability, Social Structure, & Individual Status; Respectable Families; Respectability, Institutions & Professions; Conclusion: Gentility, Luxury, & Virtue; Makers of Respectability; Rational Masculinity & Domestic Feminity; Implications & Further Questions; Appendix.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Consumption, Social History, Economics, Economy, Economic, Early Modern Europe, ,