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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