Scholars of the eighteenth century have largely characterized la querelle du luxe as a historically situated moral complaint about luxury's effects: contemporaries feared that luxury would deplete courage and virtue, effeminize men, confound
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Beyond Metaphor
Corporeal Sociability and the Language of Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Joseph D. Bryan
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 29–50 (22 total)
The Opposite of Custom
Fashion, Sumptuary Law, and Consuetudo in Fifteenth-Century Northern Italy
M. Christina Bruno
Mosher Stuard has shown that the male relations of women bound by Italian laws were often the drafters of those laws, treading a fine line between encouraging expanding luxury markets abroad for their products, and legislating to limit their use at home
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2021
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- Research Article
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- 59–78 (20 total)
A “Whirlpool of Gain”
French Aristocrats and Atlantic Merchants in Northern European Port Cities after 1789
Janet Polasky
Hamburg and Altona. 28 However, if the port cities had traditionally offered consolation to the afflicted, the French aristocrats soon strained the hospitality of the two cities. A society ready to admire their fading luxury was not what these émigrés
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2022
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- 9–30 (22 total)
Of Traiteurs and Tsars
Potel et Chabot and the Franco-Russian Alliance
Willa Z. Silverman
Between 1893 and 1901, the Parisian traiteur Potel et Chabot catered a series of gala meals celebrating the recent Franco-Russian alliance, which was heralded in France as ending its diplomatic isolation following the Franco-Prussian War. The firm was well adapted to the particularities of the unlikely alliance between Tsarist Russia and republican France. On the one hand, it represented a tradition of French luxury production, including haute cuisine, that the Third Republic was eager to promote. On the other, echoing the Republic’s championing of scientific and technological progress, it relied on innovative transportation and food conservation technologies, which it deployed spectacularly during a 1900 banquet for over twenty-two thousand French mayors, a modern “mega-event.” Culinary discourse therefore signaled, and palliated concerns about, the improbable nature of the alliance at the same time as it revealed important changes taking place in the catering profession.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
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- Research Article
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- 95–115 (21 total)
From the Auto-mobile to the Driven Subject?
Discursive Assertions of Mobility Futures
Katharina Manderscheid
analyzed data. Two Visions of Driverless Automobility For my empirical analysis of sociotechnical scripts, I will focus on two current projects and prototypes: the so-called Google car 42 and the Mercedes-Benz F 015 “Luxury in Motion.” These two
Dmitry Shlapentokh
totally different way. They were absolutely alienated from the troops, wallowed in luxury and indulged their sexual appetites without restraint. The problem with a Western leader such as Alexander the Great was as a result of his temptation to follow the
Elizabeth Dillenburg
pathways from girlhood to womanhood. However, as Duff perceptively discerns, Molteno's very ability to keep a diary was a luxury that other girls, including Molteno's young black servant, Ellen, could not afford. Such observations draw attention to the
Marissa C. de Baca
's of the interior. In Baober in Love , urban sites, like luxury penthouses and factory lofts, can become masculine or feminine. Yet, Huang also designates Baober's body as a site, a place where the protagonist imagines herself pregnant. Thereby, her
Sam Beck
and becomes a high priced, scarce or luxury good ( Basch et al. 1999 ). A change is taking place in how and where students acquire their knowledge and its relationship to personal and professional practice and how to live a life of hope ( Freire 1996
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- 22–30 (9 total)
John Storey
sixteenth-century England, in which, as the book puts it, ‘miserable poverty and scarcity … exist side by side with wanton luxury’. 4 Most of the story is told by Raphael Hythloday, but what he tells us is framed and often challenged by another character