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The birth of a consumer society : the commercialization of eighteenth-century England by Neil McKendrick, Neil Dr McKendrick, John Brewer, J. H. Plumb is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The birth of a consumer society : the commercialization of eighteenth-century England about?

The thesis of the book, briefly stated, is that there was a consumer revolution in England during the 18th century, a revolution that (surprisingly) predated the advent of industrialization as well as the advent of mass production.

Author
Neil McKendrick, Neil Dr McKendrick, John Brewer, J. H. Plumb
Publisher
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Published
1982
Language
EN
ISBN
9780905118000
Subjects
Sociology, History, Economics
Updated
2026-03-24

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