In Pursuit of Luxury: Global History and British Consumer Goods in the Eighteenth Century

2004/02/01 by M. Berg, Maxine Berg · 193 citations
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paper · doi:10.1093/past/182.1.85

published in Past & Present 182(1), 85-142 (Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

Maxine Berg; In Pursuit of Luxury: Global History and British Consumer Goods in the Eighteenth Century+, Past & Present, Volume 182, Issue 1, 1 February 2004, P

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