Contents 
LIST OF FIGURES 
LIST OF TABLES 
LIST OF PLATES 
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 
PREFACE 
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Introduction 
John Brewer and Roy Porter 
Part 1 Problems, methods and concepts 
2 Coming up for air: consumer culture in historical perspective 
Jean-Christophe Agnes sumption in eighteenth- 
3 Understanding traditional and modern ny of con 
century England: a character—action approac 
Colin Campbell 
Consumption: disease of the consumer society? 
Roy Porter 
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Part 11 Goods and consumption 
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: tanding the house 
B hasing power and the world of goods: unders 
tween purchasin 
€conomy in early modern Europe 
Jan de Vries 
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