A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521633598)

A History of Everyday Things is a pioneering essay by one of the world's leading cultural historians that sheds light on the origins of the consumer society, and thereby the birth of the modern world. Things that we regard as the everyday objects of consumption have not always been so: how, therefore, have people in the modern world become "prisoners of objects," as Rousseau put it? Daniel Roche answers this fundamental question of historical anthropology, and imaginatively explores the origins of the daily furnishings of modern life.

Author: Daniel Roche
ISBN-10: 0521633591
ISBN-13: 9780521633598
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2000
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.40h x 5.74w x 0.81d