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Luxury : a rich history
- Title
- Luxury : a rich history / Peter McNeil & Giorgio Riello.
- Author
- McNeil, Peter, 1966-
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Riello, Giorgio
- Description
- xv, 351 pages : black and white illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class 'sleeping experiences' and hotels recommend exclusive suites where you are never disturbed. Luxury is a rapidly changing global industry that makes the headlines daily in our newspapers and on the internet. More than ever, luxury is a pervasive presence in the cultural and economic life of the West - and increasingly too in the emerging economies of Asia and Latin America. Yet luxury is hardly a new phenomenon. Today's obsession with luxury brands and services is just one of the many manifestations that luxury has assumed. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, for example, luxury was linked to notions of magnificence and courtly splendour. In the eighteenth century, luxury was at the centre of philosophical debates over its role in shaping people's desires and oiling the wheels of commerce. And it continues to morph today, with the growth of the global super-rich and increasing wealth polarization. From palaces to penthouses, from courture fashion to lavish jewellery, from handbags to red wine, from fast cars to easy money, Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello present the first ever global history of luxury, from first-century Romans to twenty-first-century Russian oligarchs: a sparkling and ever-changing story of extravagance, excess, novelty, and indulgence. -- from dust jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Luxury: A Rich History and a History of Riches -- Luxury, Antiquity, and the Allure of the Antique -- Luxury, the Church, and the Court in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance -- Luxury and the Exotic: The Appeal of the Orient -- Housing Luxury: From the Hôtel Particulier to the Manhattan Cooperatives -- Luxury and Decadence at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Between False Poverty and Old Opulence: Luxury Society in the Twentieth Century -- Everything That Money Can Buy? Understanding Contemporary Luxury -- Luxury Capitalism: The Magic World of the Luxury Brands -- Conclusion: Luxury: Towards a Richer History.
- ISBN
- 0199663246
- 9780199663248
- LCCN
- 2015954095
- 9780199663248
- OCLC
- 925499971
- Author
- McNeil, Peter, 1966- author.
- Title
- Luxury : a rich history / Peter McNeil & Giorgio Riello.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Riello, Giorgio, author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780199663248
- Research Call Number
- HB841 .M396