Merchants And Luxury Markets

Author : Carolyn Sargentson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106012743354

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Merchants and Luxury Markets by Carolyn Sargentson Pdf

Through a detailed examination of inventories and other previously unpublished records, Carolyn Sargentson offers a new perspective on the history of consumption, and she paints a fascinating picture of the luxury market during the decades that preceded the French Revolution. Her text raises important questions about the life-cycle of objects and the way that they were valued, the trading options of merchants who operated within narrow margins of credit and cashflow, and the relationship between the different groups who were jostling for position and advantage in a competitive environment. The chapters cover the range of the merciers' operations and are based on detailed case studies of families or aspects of trade in specialist markets. Subjects covered include the corporation of the merciers and their business practice, their role in design, imported goods and European imitations, novelty and innovation, the merciers' shops and the magasins anglais.

Author : Susan Mosher Stuard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812205374

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Gilding the Market by Susan Mosher Stuard Pdf

In the fourteenth century, garish ornaments, bright colors, gilt, and military effects helped usher in the age of fashion in Italy. Over a short span of years important matters began to turn on the cut of a sleeve. Fashion influenced consumption and provided a stimulus that drove demand for goods and turned wealthy townspeople into enthusiastic consumers. Making wise decisions about the alarmingly expensive goods that composed a fashionable wardrobe became a matter of pressing concern, especially when the market caught on and became awash in cheaper editions of luxury wares. Focusing on the luxury trade in fashionable wear and accessories in Venice, Florence, and other towns in Italy, Gilding the Market investigates a major shift in patterns of consumption at the height of medieval prosperity, which, more remarkably, continued through the subsequent era of plague, return of plague, and increased warfare. A fine sensitivity to the demands of "le pompe," that is, the public display of private wealth, infected town life. The quest for luxuries affected markets by enlarging exchange activity and encouraging retail trades. As both consumers and tradesmen, local goldsmiths, long-distance traders, bankers, and money changers played important roles in creating this new age of fashion. In response to a greater public display of luxury goods, civic sumptuary laws were written to curb spending and extreme fashion, but these were aimed at women, youth, and children, leaving townsmen largely unrestricted in their consumption. With erudition, grace, and an evocative selection of illustrations, some reproduced in full color, Susan Mosher Stuard explores the arrival of fashion in European history.

Author : M. Berg,E. Eger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230508279

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Luxury in the Eighteenth Century by M. Berg,E. Eger Pdf

'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic.

Author : Dena Goodman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : French letters
ISBN : 0801475457

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Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters by Dena Goodman Pdf

In 18th century France, letter writing became extremely fashionable, particularly amongst women. In this work, Dena Goodman opens up the world of these women though the letters which they wrote. Concentrating on the letters of four women from different social backgrounds, she shows how they came to womanhood through their writing.

Author : Tengda Hua
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030771898

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Merchants, Market and Monarchy by Tengda Hua Pdf

This book explores the vital role of merchants within early modern China. Unlike European merchants, their Sino-colleagues have long been regarded as certain social pariahs after pre-Qin period, despite the fortune they made. The key mission of this monograph is to investigate whether the standing of merchants in the Ming Empire has been improved compared with their predecessors. Generally, their status is reflected in state-merchant relationship and their role in the market, which can be found in miscellaneous economic activities such as market monopoly, commercial taxation, international trade, and consumption. This book aims to be of relevance to students and researchers interested in early modern history, eastern commerce, Ming merchants, and contemporary global affairs.

Author : Robert Fox,Anthony Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351921107

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Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Régime Paris by Robert Fox,Anthony Turner Pdf

Since the 16th century, Paris has been a leading arbiter of taste and the ultimate source of luxury goods for Europe and the world. However, the origins of the luxury trades of Paris and their role in the wider economic development of France and Europe have been relatively little examined by historians. This volume provides an entry into some of the many questions raised by the growth of the luxury trades, by bringing together eight detailed case studies of specific trades with five more wide-ranging and theoretical contributions. It therefore offers both the results of entirely new research and a range of new perspectives and methodological reflections on the subject as a whole. Essential to economic and social historians of Early Modern France, the book will also be of interest to all students of material culture.

Author : Klas Nyberg,Håkan Jakobsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000282047

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Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit by Klas Nyberg,Håkan Jakobsson Pdf

Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust, in the context of fashion and trade, were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution. Luxury, fashion and social standing are intimately connected to consumption on credit. Drawing on data from the fashion trade, this fascinating edited volume shows how the concepts of credit, trust and bankruptcy changed towards the end of the early modern period (1500−1800) and in the beginning of the modern period. Focusing on Sweden, with comparative material from France and other European countries, this volume draws together emerging and established scholars from across the fields of economic history and fashion. This book is an essential read for scholars in economic history, financial history, social history and European history.

Author : Maxine Berg
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199272082

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Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Maxine Berg Pdf

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 rapidly growing urban and middling-class people of the eighteenth century, played an important part in helping to proclaim personal identities,and guide social interaction. Customers enjoyed shopping for them; they took pleasure in their beauty, ingenuity or convenience. All manner of new products appeared in shop windows; sophisticated mixed-media advertising seduced customers and created new wants. This unparalleled 'product revolution' provokedphilosophers and pundits to proclaim a 'new luxury', one that reached out to the middling and trading classes, unlike the elite and corrupt luxury of old.Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain is cultural history at its best, built on a fresh empirical base drawn directly from customs accounts, advertising material, company papers, and contemporary correspondence. Maxine Berg traces how this new consumer society of the eighteenth century and the products first traded, then invented to satisfy it, stimulated industrialization itself. Global markets for the consumer goods of private and domestic life inspired the industrialrevolution and British products 'won the world'.

Author : Johanna Ilmakunnas,Jon Stobart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474258258

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A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe by Johanna Ilmakunnas,Jon Stobart Pdf

Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury and taste in early modern Europe. In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence and a marker of rank and status. This book takes a fresh, comparative approach to these ideas, drawing together new scholarship to examine three related areas in a wide variety of European contexts. Firstly, the deployment of luxury goods in displays of status and how these practices varied across space and time. Secondly, the processes of communicating and acquiring taste and luxury: how did people obtain tasteful and luxurious goods, and how did they recognise them as such? Thirdly, the ways in which ideas of taste and luxury crossed national, political and economic boundaries: what happened to established ideas of luxury and taste as goods moved from one country to another, and during times of political transformation? Through the analysis of case studies looking at consumption practices, material culture, political economy and retail marketing, A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe challenges established readings of luxury and taste. This is a crucial volume for any historian seeking a more nuanced understanding of material culture, consumption and luxury in early modern Europe.

Author : Dana Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101218075

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Deluxe by Dana Thomas Pdf

“With Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, [Dana] Thomas—who has been the cultural and fashion writer for Newsweek in Paris for 12 years—has written a crisp, witty social history that’s as entertaining as it is informative.” —New York Times From the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and, above all, profits. Award-winning journalist Dana Thomas digs deep into the dark side of the luxury industry to uncover all the secrets that Prada, Gucci, and Burberry don't want us to know. Deluxe is an uncompromising look behind the glossy façade that will enthrall anyone interested in fashion, finance, or culture.

Author : Johanna Ilmakunnas,Jon Stobart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474258241

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A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe by Johanna Ilmakunnas,Jon Stobart Pdf

Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury and taste in early modern Europe. In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence and a marker of rank and status. This book takes a fresh, comparative approach to these ideas, drawing together new scholarship to examine three related areas in a wide variety of European contexts. Firstly, the deployment of luxury goods in displays of status and how these practices varied across space and time. Secondly, the processes of communicating and acquiring taste and luxury: how did people obtain tasteful and luxurious goods, and how did they recognise them as such? Thirdly, the ways in which ideas of taste and luxury crossed national, political and economic boundaries: what happened to established ideas of luxury and taste as goods moved from one country to another, and during times of political transformation? Through the analysis of case studies looking at consumption practices, material culture, political economy and retail marketing, A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe challenges established readings of luxury and taste. This is a crucial volume for any historian seeking a more nuanced understanding of material culture, consumption and luxury in early modern Europe.

Author : Rengenier C. Rittersma
Publisher : ASP / VUBPRESS / UPA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789054877974

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Luxury in the Low Countries by Rengenier C. Rittersma Pdf

Painting a panoramic view of conspicuous consumption in the Netherlands and Flanders from 1500 to the present, this collection of essays explores the economic forces that produce a boom in luxury goods. Working from disciplines such as archaeology, art history, historical ethnology, linguistics, and media studies, these scholarly contributors explore both the wealth and the social display that fuels the search for rare commodities.

Author : James C. Anderson,Nirmalya Kumar,James A. Narus
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422131077

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Value Merchants by James C. Anderson,Nirmalya Kumar,James A. Narus Pdf

Do your salespeople feel under extreme pressure to retain accounts or gain new business at any cost? If so, you may be leaving big money on the table. Consider the integrated-circuit supplier representative who lost $500,000 of potential profit on a single transaction, just to "win" a deal that he would have closed anyway at the higher price. Do not make price concessions. Become a value merchant instead. In this authoritative book, James Anderson, Nirmalya Kumar, and James Narus explain how companies in business markets can use customer value management techniques to estimate the value of your market offerings, create value propositions that resonate with your customers, and maximize the return you will get on the superior value that you deliver. Drawing on extensive research and detailed case studies of companies like Sonoco, Tata Steel, and Quaker Chemical, Value Merchants will change the mindset and behavior of your executives, sales management, representatives, and marketers—as well as your customers.

Author : Linda Levy Peck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521842328

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Consuming Splendor by Linda Levy Peck Pdf

A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.

Author : Marie-Christine Engels
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9065505709

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Merchants, Interlopers, Seamen and Corsairs by Marie-Christine Engels Pdf