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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