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… & Fashion Concepts > Social interaction Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Keywords Collecting Consumption Emotions Fashion Friendship Luxury North America Snuff Snuffboxes epitomise the interconnection of fashion … ‘The Production and Marketing of Populuxe Goods in Eighteenth-Century Paris’, in John Brewer and Roy Porter (eds.), Consumption and the World of Goods (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 228-248. The commerce of the snuffbox: fashion, shopping … them.’ 5 The ‘ceremony of the snuffbox’ encapsulates the highly ritualistic nature of modes of sociability around snuff consumption and the importance of the performance of bodies in the making of sociability. Whether snuff-takers were …

… West Indies was distributed through pamphlets, satirical prints, petitions, and objects. Objects > Food & Drink Keywords Consumption Domesticity Femininity Slave trade Tea Tea-table Sugar, which had been a luxury good up to the … mid-seventeenth century, became more affordable and more common in the eighteenth century. It was linked to the sociable consumption of tea, sweet pastries, rum, and punch. As a popular consumer item, West Indian sugar, which was produced … and spices, sugar was one of several New World crops that were imported into Britain on a large scale, where home consumption grew from 4.01 lb per capita in 1698-99 to 23.02 lb in 1770-1779. 2  Sugar, a labour-intensive crop, was …

… female aristocrats could regulate entry to high society. Places > Cities Places > Institutions Keywords Aristocracy Consumption Clubs Elite Gambling Gender Opera ‘The West End of the Town‘ (as it was usually known in the long eighteenth … the Department Store: A view from the eighteenth century‘ in Geoffrey Crossick and Serge Jaumain (eds.), Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1850-1939 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999), p. 62. 3 . Clemens Zimmermann, ‘The … 1780-1880 (Durham, NH: University Press of New England, 2007), p. 4-5, 24, 61. The forms of clothing and conspicuous consumption evident when aristocratic people promenaded in Piccadilly (or rode in Hyde Park) were integral to the making …

… and its positive impact on employment and free trade. Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Art Commodities Community Consumption Furniture Luxury Porcelain Shopping Tea-table Women The rise of consumer goods and consumerism made luxury a … debate to economic growth, wider societal issues and human interaction, and they argue in favour of the production and consumption of luxurious commodities. In addition, Hume emphasizes the fact that the refinement created by a responsible … Western Thought, Eden to Smollett (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977). … Art … Commodities … Community … Consumption … Furniture … Luxury … Porcelain … Shopping … Tea-table … Women … Luxury …

… with ridicule and yet a fervent social demand. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Clothes Consumption Dress Fashion Rank Women Fashion, much like its influence today, played a central role in the development of … France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831) , trans. Daniel L. Newman (London: Saqi Books, 2011), p. 222-223 . … Clothes … Consumption … Dress … Fashion … Rank … Women … Dress …

… in Glasgow, at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and elsewhere. 8 . Martyn J. Powell, The Politics of Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), p. 188. 9 . … Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), p. 23-24. 11 . Londonderry Journal, 3 December 1779, quoted in Powell, Politics of Consumption, p. 30. Throughout the eighteenth century (and beyond) a reactive market developed new ranges of glassware to … Treacherous Objects, Secret Places (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Powell, Martyn J., The Politics of Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Seddon, Geoffrey B., The Jacobites and …

… access to a well, such as Tuewhet wells in Harrogate or the sulphurous well in Moffat (Scotland), in a proto-touristic consumption of the environment, an early form of the ‘commodification of nature’. 7   At night, social gatherings … History (London: Athlone Press, 1990). Harley, D., ‘A Sword in a Madman’s Hand: Professional Opposition to Popular Consumption in the Waters Literature of Southern England and the Midlands, 1570-1870’, Medical History. Supplement (n° … History (London: Athlone Press, 1990). Harley, D., ‘A Sword in a Madman’s Hand: Professional Opposition to Popular Consumption in the Waters Literature of Southern England and the Midlands, 1570-1870’, Medical History. Supplement (n° …