Tell your friends about this item:
Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900 - The History of Retailing and Consumption Bert De Munck New edition
Ordered from remote warehouse
Our customers say:
Also available as:
Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900 - The History of Retailing and Consumption
Bert De Munck
In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything from a loaf of bread to a work of art to a simple haircut, value is expressed in monetary terms and seen as determined primarily by the 'objective' interplay between supply and demand. Yet this 'price-mechanism' is itself embedded in conventions and frames of reference which differed according to time, place and product type. Moreover, the dominance of the conventions of utility maximising and calculative homo economicus is a relatively new phenomenon, and one which directly correlates to the steady advent of capitalism in early modern Europe. This volume brings together scholars with expertise in a variety of related fields, including economic history, the history of consumption and material culture, art history, and the history of collecting, to explore changing concepts of value from the early modern period to the nineteenth century and present a new view on the advent of modern economic practices. Jointly, they fundamentally challenge traditional historical narratives about the rise of our contemporary market economy and consumer society.
Includes 21 b&w illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 28, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781472451965 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 165 × 25 mm · 708 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Shaw, Professor Gareth |
More by Bert De Munck
Show all
More from the same publisher
See all of Bert De Munck ( e.g. Hardcover Book and Paperback Book )