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Sugar [ Food & Drink ]

… documented in James Grainger's georgic poem The Sugar Cane (1764). The 1790s saw a major sugar boycott, in which female consumers participated and which aimed at the emancipation of slaves. Information about slavery in the West Indies was distributed through pamphlets, satirical prints, petitions, and objects. Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Consumer culture Tea Tea-table Domesticity Femininity Slave trade Boycott Sugar, which had been a luxury good up to the …

Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]

… and fashionable objects enhanced individual status, in domestic settings and in public spaces. McKendrick even claims a ‘consumer revolution’. If luxury was often coded as pernicious and immoral, some thinkers (e.g. Mandeville) provocatively … on employment and free trade. Concepts > Taste & Manners Mots-clés Luxury Mandeville Hume Porcelain Shopping Tea-table Consumerism Women The rise of consumer goods and consumerism made luxury a much-debated topic throughout the eighteenth … of rulers, warriors, churchmen and landowners’ 2  who displayed items associated with ‘surplus resources’ and ‘high culture’ to cement their elite status and underline their authority. Thus, the display of luxurious items was also a …

Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]

… The wealth and competitive elegance involved in fashionable dress in particular, were truly symbolic of the growing culture of refined sociability, luxury and consumerism. Fashion became a form of social communication: a means by which to impress one’s social circle and gain … in fashionable dress in particular, were truly symbolic of the growing culture of refined sociability, luxury and consumerism. According to Neil McKendrick, ‘Fashion was the key used by many commentators to explain the forces of social …

Merchants [ Commerce ]

… straddled traditional social classes and the rise of the merchant was part of the expansion of the ‘middling sorts’. Cultures of commerce and politeness – two key attributes of eighteenth-century British identity – came together in the … and into people’s lives. Commerce was as much about consumption as trade. In this period, we see the development of a consumer society; people bought not just for necessity, but for desire. Historians, such as Neil McKendrick, have argued that a ‘consumer revolution’ took place in the eighteenth century, but this concept has been criticized by historians mainly …

Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]

… case, the attractiveness of politeness grew out of contemporary developments in urban living, class aspiration, print culture and consumption patterns. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Education Mots-clés Social relations Civility … in the Spectator Papers (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1985). 4 . Lawrence Klein, Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness: Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge … Press, 1989). These changes, reinforced by others such as the expansion of print culture and indeed of all manner of consumer items as well as the new political conditions of the post-1688 polity, conduced to the spread of the idea of …

Portable directories [ Print culture ]

… and the circulation of directories left many clues, which help us to understand how they were effectively used by consumers. Objects > Print culture Mots-clés genealogical knowledge status Rank Politeness pride identification From the Restoration onwards, there … distraction. Most of them were not kept hidden in a private library, but laid open on a table or kept in a pocket. Many consumers took them in their perambulations, to discretely identify a new face met in parks or at court. Some were even …