Full text: A history of everyday things

Contents 
Acknowledgements 
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Introduction: culture and material civilisation 
Part I Production and consumption 
The natural framework and the human framework 
Goods in history 
Stability and change 
Towns, trade and inventions 
The weight of the town 
The towns and consumption 
Business and industry, trade and services 
The experience of urban life 
Ordinary consumption and luxury consumption 
Budgets a la Marshal Vauban 
Eighteenth-century budget investigations 
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Part II Ordinary life 
Rural and urban houses 
Habitat and everyday life 
The traditional rural house. between custom and innovation 
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Cold and heat, light and darkness 
Night and day 
The pedagogy of lighting 
The conquests of light, urban lighting 
Heat and cold 
¥ood, coal, supplies and technical reflections 
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