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

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

Smith, Kate

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture

Art HistoryGeneral DesignGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0719090679
ISBN13: 9780719090677
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Oct 31 2014
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
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 eighteenth century. It shows how new relationships with production processes encouraged consumers, retailers, designers, manufacturers and workers to develop conflicting understandings of production. Objects then were not just markers of fashion and taste, they acted as important conduits through which people living in Georgian Britain could examine and discuss their material world and the processes and knowledge that rendered it.

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