HIST 390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Conspicuous Consumption
22 Apr 2019
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Other reminders: source curation due april 3; aim for 500 words, quizzes tba. The most important developments in the 18th century may be economic shifts: This allows for the history of commodities, history of food, and so on. New social spheres are not just the salons, but the co ee houses, which introduce the commodities of co ee, sugar, tea, chocolate. There is a connection between economic history and a cultural history of commodities. The urban public as a kind of market place that connects to sociability and the public sphere. People don"t fail to notice what is going on in the. 18th century and there is a lot of economic discussion: ethical consumption, anti- slavery discourses both connected to the enlightenment. For the course: we are moving from a general economic history to consumption, fashion, and the colonial debates.
