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Book 2003‘Luxury in the 18th Century‘ explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as ‘female vice‘ and the exotic.

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ods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as ‘female vice‘ and the exotic.978-0-230-51779-0978-0-230-50827-9

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978-0-230-51779-0Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003

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Introductionexplore the power of luxury as a concept and a cultural phenomenon. In 1711, John Dennis wrote ., in which he described London as ‘a visible, palpable Proof of the Growth of the . Luxury’.. He paints a vivid picture of a town bursting with luxury goods, brimming with excessive and extravagant gestur

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Luxury in the Dutch Golden Age in Theory and Practiceo the search for the Holy Grail. At least three bodies of literature now exist each proclaiming to have located the wellspring of modern materialism in as many eras stretching from the eighteenth century to the present day.. This essay proposes that modern consumer behaviour made a decisive advance

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