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France at the Crystal Palace : bourgeois taste and artisan manufacture in the nineteenth century / Whitney Walton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520912144
  • 0520912144
  • 0585079420
  • 9780585079424
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: France at the Crystal Palace.DDC classification:
  • 338.4/767/094409034 20
LOC classification:
  • HC280.C6 W35 1992eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: French Taste and Manufacturing at the Crystal Palace Exhibition -- pt. 1. Consumption in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France. 1. Constructing the Bourgeoisie through Consumption. 2. "To Triumph before Feminine Taste": Female Consumption, Gender, and Women at the Exhibition. 3. Symbols of Status, Signs of Change: Furnishings in the Bourgeois Household -- pt. 2. The Effect of Bourgeois Demand on French Manufacturing. 4. The Success of Hand Manufacturing in Consumer Goods Industries. 5. Flexible Specialization in Luxury and Art Industries -- pt. 3. Taste in Politics: The Exhibition as a Watershed. 6. Art for Industry's Sake: Leon de Laborde's Plan for Transforming Taste. 7. Political Economists and Specialized Industrialization -- Conclusion: Taste and Consumption in Industrial Development.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.

Print version record.

Introduction: French Taste and Manufacturing at the Crystal Palace Exhibition -- pt. 1. Consumption in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France. 1. Constructing the Bourgeoisie through Consumption. 2. "To Triumph before Feminine Taste": Female Consumption, Gender, and Women at the Exhibition. 3. Symbols of Status, Signs of Change: Furnishings in the Bourgeois Household -- pt. 2. The Effect of Bourgeois Demand on French Manufacturing. 4. The Success of Hand Manufacturing in Consumer Goods Industries. 5. Flexible Specialization in Luxury and Art Industries -- pt. 3. Taste in Politics: The Exhibition as a Watershed. 6. Art for Industry's Sake: Leon de Laborde's Plan for Transforming Taste. 7. Political Economists and Specialized Industrialization -- Conclusion: Taste and Consumption in Industrial Development.

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