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Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth century. It follows these goods, from china tea ware to all sorts of metal ornaments such as candlesticks, cutlery, buckles, and buttons, as they were made and shopped for, then displayed in the private domestic settings of Britain's urban middling classes. It tells the stories and analyses the developmentsthat led from a global trade in Eastern luxuries beginning in the sixteenth century to the new global trade in British-made consumer goods by the end of the eighteenth century.These new products, regarded as luxuries by the r...
Maxine Berg
Who is Maxine Berg The historian and professor Maxine Louise Berg hails from the United Kingdom. The University of Warwick has been fortunate enough to have her as a history lecturer since the year 1998. She began her teaching career at Warwick in 1978, when she joined the Department of Economics. Subsequently, she moved on to the Department of History. A member of the Royal Historical Society as well as the British Academy, she has the title of Fellow. How you will benefit (I) Insights about the following: Chapter 1: Maxine Berg Chapter 2: Charles Babbage Chapter 3: William Cunningham (economist) Chapter 4: John Habakkuk Chapter 5: Charles W. J. Withers Chapter 6: John Morrill (historian) C...
Maxine Berg
Quién es Maxine Berg La historiadora y profesora Maxine Louise Berg es oriunda del Reino Unido. La Universidad de Warwick ha tenido la suerte de contar con ella como profesora de historia desde el año 1998. Comenzó su carrera docente en Warwick en 1978, cuando se incorporó al Departamento de Economía. Posteriormente pasó al Departamento de Historia. Miembro de la Royal Historical Society y de la Academia Británica, tiene el título de Fellow. Cómo se beneficiará (I) Insights sobre lo siguiente: Capítulo 1: Maxine Berg Capítulo 2: Charles Babbage Capítulo 3: William Cunningham (economista) Capítulo 4: Juan Habacuc Capítulo 5: Charles W. J. Withers Capítulo 6: John Morrill (hist...
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place. In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson ‘follow the money’ to document in revealing detail the role of slavery in the making of Britain’s industrial revolution. Slavery was not just a source of wealth for a narrow circle of slave owners who built grand country houses and filled them with luxuries. The forces set in motion by the slave and plantation trades seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society. In textile mills, iron and copper smelting, steam power, and financial institutions, slavery played a crucial part. Things we might think far re...
The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820
This new edition of The Age of Manufactures provides an exciting alternative overview of the eighteenth-century British economy. Recent macro-economic history has discounted many of the achievements of the Industrial Revolution. Maxine Berg argues that at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, we find many new consumer industries employing a women's workforce, and bringing with them a rich diversity of technological and organizational change. Four new chapters explore recent perspectives on: * The Industrial Revolution * Eighteenth century industries * Machines and manual labour * The rise of the factory system Statistical summaries, and a thorough revision of the whole text have refreshed and enhanced this well-established and important contribution to British ecomonic history.
Goods from the East, 1600-1800
Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.
Writing the History of the Global
How do we write about the history of a place, a person, an event or an idea in its context in the world? How do we do history in the current age of globalization? In this book historians engage in new dialogues outside their former specialisms to face new challenges of comparative and connective histories.
The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848
Dr Berg argues that technical change was one of the foremost theoretical concerns of Ricardo and his successors, and the foundation for their distinctly optimistic view of the future. She shows how the Machinery Question fostered the social conditions in which the status of Political Economy as a discipline was established, and concludes that by the 1840s the divisions over machinery were firmly embedded in the great rival creeds of the future, liberalism and socialism.
The Age of Manufactures
This fascinating overview of the neglected 18th-century British economy offers a fresh perspective of 'the other Industrial Revolution.' Dr. Berg traverses the years between the pre-industrial and industrial periods, dissects the phenomena of industrial development now packaged by historians as 'protoindustrialization, ' and uncovers the early origins of new technologies, new and widely variable industrial structures, and patterns of work. Moving beyond the traditional singular focus on the factory system and the cotton industry, Dr. Berg analyzes instead the ubiquity and success of workshop, artisan and domestic systems of manufacture within the entire range of textile and metal industries
Consumers and Luxury
This volume charts the rise of consumer culture in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. Essays are included on France and Holland, but the focus is primarily on Britain. Themes discussed include art markets, collecting and display, and are set alongside those of value and luxury.
