Material Goods, Moving Hands: Perceiving Production in England, 1700-1830

by Kate Smith

In eighteenth-century Britain, greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever-greater quantities. As consumers rather than producers, how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change? Material goods and moving hands combines material culture and visual culture approaches to explore the different ways in which manufacturers and retailers presented production to consumers during the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719090679
• ISBN13: 9780719090677
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.5"