Contents 
9 Selling it to the provinces: news and commerce round eighteenth-century 
Salisbury 
C. Y. Ferdinand 
3G 
20 The business of political enlightenment in trance, 770-1800 
Jeremy D. Popkin 
Part VI Consumption, objects and images 
Reading and writing with nature: a materialist anproach to French formal gardens 439 
Chandra Mukerji 
21 
22 Presuming images and consuming words: the visualization of knowledge from the 
Enlightenment to post-modernism 
Barbara Maria Stafford 
169 
23 Perishable commodities: Dutch still-life paintings and the ‘empire of things’ 478 
Simon Schama 
24 The consuming flame: electrical showmen and Tory mystics in the world of goods 489 
Simon Schaffer 
25 Manufacturing, consumption and design in eighteenth-century England 
John Styles 
INDEX 
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