At Home with the Poor
Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, C.1650-1850
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2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-9474-9 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-9474-9 (ISBN)
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This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor owned greater numbers and varieties of items with each generation and that poverty did not always mean living in squalor. -- .
This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c. 1650–1850). Using a vast and diverse range of sources, it gets to the very heart of what it meant to be ‘poor’ by examining the homes of the impoverished and mapping how numerous household goods became more widespread. As the book argues, poverty did not necessarily equate to owning very little and living in squalor. In fact, its novel findings show that most of the poor strove to improve their domestic spheres and that their demand for goods was so great that it was a driving force of the industrial revolution. -- .
This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c. 1650–1850). Using a vast and diverse range of sources, it gets to the very heart of what it meant to be ‘poor’ by examining the homes of the impoverished and mapping how numerous household goods became more widespread. As the book argues, poverty did not necessarily equate to owning very little and living in squalor. In fact, its novel findings show that most of the poor strove to improve their domestic spheres and that their demand for goods was so great that it was a driving force of the industrial revolution. -- .
Joseph Harley is a Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge -- .
Introduction
1 Accommodating the poor
2 Material wealth and material poverty
3 Building blocks of the home
4 Comforts of the hearth
5 Eating and drinking
6 Non-essential goods
7 Contrasting genders and locations
Conclusion
Index -- .
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Design and Material Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | 41 black & white illustrations, 1 graph |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 244 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-9474-0 / 1526194740 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-9474-9 / 9781526194749 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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