Luxury trades and consumerism in ancien régime Paris : studies in the history of the skilled workforce

Folger bibliographic ID: 104838
Folger call number: HD9732.8.P37 L88 1998
Folger holdings ID: 102906

General notes

English and French "This book has its origins in two conferences on 'The skilled workforce in Paris 1500-1800' that were held in Paris and Oxford in April and November 1993"--Pref Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Les relieurs et doreurs de Paris au XVIe siècle / Fabienne Le Bars -- L'influence flamande sur l'orfèvrerie parisienne au XVIe siècle / Michèle Bimbenet-Privat -- The Parisian fine binding trade in the last century of the ancien régime / Giles Barber -- Mathematical instrument-making in early modern Paris / Anthony Turner -- The manufacture and marketing of luxury goods : the marchands merciers of late 17th- and 18th-century Paris / Carolyn Sargentson -- Paris-Lyons-Paris : dialogue in the design and distribution of patterned silks in the 18th century / Lesley Ellis Miller -- Noël Gérard (1685-1736) et le Magasin Général à l'Hôtel Jabach / Jean-Dominique Augarde -- L'imaginaire comme support du luxe : les fêtes royales de Versailles de mai 1664 / Jean-Jacques Gautier -- Between a 'moral economy' and a 'consumer economy' : clothes and their function in the 17th and 18th centuries / Daniel Roche -- Fashion's empire : trade and power in early 18th-century France / Michael Sonenscher -- Luxury trades and consumerism / Joan Thirsk -- Some remarks on the métiers d'art / François Crouzet -- Producers, suppliers, and consumers : reflections on the luxury trades in Paris c. 1500-c. 1800 / Gillian Lewis

Extended title: Luxury trades and consumerism in ancien régime Paris : studies in the history of the skilled workforce / edited by Robert Fox and Anthony Turner

Manufacturing industries Luxuries Skilled labor Consumption (Economics) Affluent consumers

associated with: Fox, Robert, 1938-
associated with: Turner, Anthony John, 1946-