The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America

by Carole Shammas

This book is a comprehensive study of English and American consumers and consumption before industrialization and mass urbanization. Shammas examines the changes in what rural households bought on the market and what they produced themselves. She charts the incredible growth in what contemporaries called groceries--tobacco, suger, and caffeine drinks--and in semi-durables--lighter textiles, pottery, glassware, and paper products--and discusses the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198283024
• ISBN13: 9780198283027
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"