"Focusing on the luxury trade in fashionable wear and accessories in Venice, Florence, and other towns in Italy, Gilding the Market investigates a major shift in patterns of consumption at the height of medieval prosperity, which, more remarkably, continued through the subsequen…
Focusing on the luxury trade, Gilding the Market investigates Italian market towns at the moment when fashion arrived in the fourteenth century.
"Il y a deux essais dans ce livre, écrits par des auteurs dont ni les problèmatiques ni les objets d'étude ne sont exactement similaires. L'un se veut une interprétation historico-sociale, l'autre une approche marketing et sémiotique du luxe ; le premier adopte le point de vue d…
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different st…