At Home with the Poor : Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, C.1650-1850
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Design and Material Culture
ISBN-10
1526160846
ISBN-13
9781526160843
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 18th, 2024
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
642 grams
Dimensions
25.00 x 17.80 x 2.30 cms
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This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor owned greater numbers and varieties of items with each generation and that poverty did not always mean living in squalor. -- .
This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c. 16501850). Using a vast and diverse range of sources, it gets to the very heart of what it meant to be poor by examining the homes of the impoverished and mapping how numerous household goods became more widespread. As the book argues, poverty did not necessarily equate to owning very little and living in squalor. In fact, its novel findings show that most of the poor strove to improve their domestic spheres and that their demand for goods was so great that it was a driving force of the industrial revolution.
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