Over the past two decades, through unprecedented levels of prosperity and changing values, luxury tourism has transformed into a new consumption pattern. This book analyzes the topic in detail with contributions from both recognized scientists and prominent executives in the lux…
Sociologische beschrijving van oorzaak en maatschappelijke verbreiding van de hang naar weelde sinds ca 1600
"Drawing on hundreds of political economic tracts published in France between the 1740s and the early nineteenth century, Shovlin shows how mid-level French elites (magistrates, clerics, lawyers, soldiers, landed gentlemen) sought to balance their interests and values with the n…
Much research has been concerned with what constitute necessities and how they are related to pertinent concepts, such as needs, wants, desires, and luxuries (Belk, Ger, and Askegaard 2003; Duncan 2002; Fraser 1998, Hoyer and MacInnis 2004; Kerin, Hartley and Rudelius 2004; Shet…
New-build construction is causing an expansion in the presence of gentrification and displacement in urban neighborhoods across the United States. The dominant explanation for this trend is urban renewal. Previous research has focused on neighborhood transitions in economic clas…
After Rome conquered Egypt, Egypt invaded Rome. Or so it would seem, judging from the explosion of Egyptian-inspired art in Rome beginning in the mid-first century BC—including a host of Egyptian motifs incorporated into Roman wall painting. These motifs are based on pharaonic a…
This dissertation explores the ideas about fashion and luxury in literary texts from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. The first chapter reviews the concept of “fashion,” its meaning and implications, and provides an overview of the most important theories t…
The primary goal of the VALS analysis was to identify natural groups within a set of data in order to describe a certain lifestyle. Variables that are used to create clusters are anticipated values of lifestyle factors (activity, fashion, practice, tradition, theory and indiffer…
The first ever global history of luxury, from Roman villas to Russian oligarchs: a sparkling story of novelty, excess, extravagance, and indulgence through the centuries.
The first ever global history of luxury, from Roman villas to Russian oligarchs: a sparkling story of novelty, excess, extravagance, and indulgence through the centuries.
This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via th…
This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via th…
This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via th…
Presents a global history of dress regulation and debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised.
