Contents 
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6 European consumption and Asian production in the seventeenth and eighte 
centuries 
Jon E. Wills, Jr 
i ta 
7 Res et verba: conspicuous consumption in the early modern wor 
Peter Burke 
8 Consumption in early modern social thought 
Joyce Appleby 
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Part 111 Production and the meaning of possessions 
9 Changes in English and Anglo-American consumption from 1550 to 1800 
Carole Shammas _ 
0 The meaning of consumer behaviour in late seventeenth- and early eig 
century England 
Lorna Weatheril] 
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Paris 
in eighteenth-century 
I1 The prod ction and marketing of populuxe goods in eig 
€ produ 
oe Fail er economy in the eighteenth 
ings: i reting the consum 
12 The meanings of things: interp 
Century 
T. H. Breen 
91 
214 
tion 
[3 The changing roles of food in the study of consump 
i. ” ssessions, 
4 W d the world of goods: a Lancashire consumer and her po 
Omen an 
1751-8] 
Amanda Vickery 
wg 
J 
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Part 1v Literacy and numeracy t in early modern England 
3 d measuremen 
15 Literacy in context: meaning an 
Dayig Cressy America 
so th-century 
16 Reckoning with commerce: numeracy in eighteen 
Patricig Cline Cohen . : Pompey aderat’: the 
17 Teaching : the market-place, or ‘Caesar adsum J ores Tog century 
tiling of in provincial England during 
John Money 
305 
12C 
335 
ers 
Pan v The Consumption of culture: books and newspap tr 
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18 The book trade in eastern Europe in the seventeenth and early eightee 
centuries 
larosiay Isaievych 
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