Consumption and gender in the early seventeenth-century household the world of Alice Le Strange

In this account of life in a 17th-century gentry household, the authors delve into the details of everyday life: how did a large, wealthy household in the English countryside acquire the goods and services it needed and wanted? Was household consumption an exclusively female sphere, or did men play...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whittle, Jane
Other Authors: Griffiths, Elizabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2012, 2012
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:In this account of life in a 17th-century gentry household, the authors delve into the details of everyday life: how did a large, wealthy household in the English countryside acquire the goods and services it needed and wanted? Was household consumption an exclusively female sphere, or did men play an important role, too?
Physical Description:1 online resource ill
ISBN:9780191739330