Creating and consuming culture in North-East England, 1660-1830 / edited by Helen Berry, Jeremy Gregory.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berry, Helen, 1969-

Gregory, Jeremy.

Series:

History of retailing and consumption

The history of retailing and consumption

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumers--England, North East--History.

Consumers.

Consumption (Economics)--England, North East--History.

Consumption (Economics).

National characteristics, English.

History.

England, North East--Civilization--18th century.

England, North East.

England, North East--Civilization--17th century.

National characteristics, English--History.

England, North East--Social life and customs--History.

England, North East--History.

Physical Description:

x, 155 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]

Contents:

2 Was the North-East Different from Other Areas? The Property of Everyday Consumption in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries / Lorna Scammell 12

3 North of the Trent: Images of Northern-ness and Northern English in the Eighteenth Century / Katie Wales 24

4 Spirits in the North-East? Gin and Other Vices in the Long Eighteenth Century / J. A. Chartres 37

5 The Sociability of the Trade Guilds of Newcastle and Durham, 1660-1750: The Urban Renaissance Revisited / Rebecca King 57

6 'A Clumsey Countrey Girl': The Material and Print Culture of Betty Bowes / Adrian Green 72

7 An Alternative Community in North-East England: Quakers, Morals and Popular Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century / Richard C. Allen 98

8 Creating Polite Space: The Organisation and Social Function of the Newcastle Assembly Rooms / Helen Berry 120

9 Newcastle's First Art Exhibitions and the Language of Civic Humanism / Paul Usherwood 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754606031

OCLC:

52374278