Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jon stobart

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  • COMFORT IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY COUNTRY HOUSE
    JON STOBART
    Country houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout, the new technologies, and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes were just one aspect of comfort in the country house: feeling comfortable was just as important...

    $1,160.00

  • DAILY LIVES AND DAILY ROUTINES IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
    GUDRUN ANDERSSON / JON STOBART
    This book explores the ways in which the lives and routines of a wide range of people across different parts of Europe and the wider world were structured and played out through everyday practices. It focuses on the detail of individual lives and how these were shaped by spaces and places, by movement and material culture – both the buildings they occupied and the objects they ...

    $1,160.00

  • MICRO-GEOGRAPHIES OF THE WESTERN CITY, C.1750–1900
    JON STOBART / DAG LINDSTRÖM / ALIDA CLEMENTE
    This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c.1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter, framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America th...

    $1,200.00

  • URBAN FORTUNES
    JON STOBART / ALASTAIR OWENS
    Property is central to any historical analyses of production, reproduction and consumption. It lies at the heart of discussions of material culture, class relations and the household economy. Recent work has begun to look beyond the acquisition and possession of goods to examine what the disposal, transmission and giving of property might tell us about changing society and cul...

    $1,600.00

  • SPACES OF CONSUMPTION
    JON STOBART / ANDREW HANN / VICTORIA MORGAN
    Consumption is well established as a key theme in the study of the eighteenth century. Spaces of Consumption brings a new dimension to this subject by looking at it spatially. Taking English towns as its scene, this inspiring study focuses on moments of consumption – selecting and purchasing goods, attending plays, promenading – and explores the ways in which these were related...

    $1,280.00