A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800

by Daniel Roche

Book Overview

A History of Everyday Things is a pioneering essay by one of the world's leading cultural historians that sheds light on the origins of the consumer society, and thereby the birth of the modern world. Things that we regard as the everyday objects of consumption have not always been so: how, therefore, have people in the modern world become prisoners of objects, as Rousseau put it? Daniel Roche answers this fundamental question of historical anthropology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521633591
• ISBN13: 9780521633598
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.4"