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The birth of a consumer society

by Neil McKendrick, J. H. Plumb, John Brewer et al.

1982 345 pages eng

The thesis of the book, briefly stated, is that there was a consumer revolution in England during the 18th century, a revolution that (surprisingly) predated the advent of industrialization as well as the advent of mass production.

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