The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present by Jan de Vries

The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present

Jan de Vries

327 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction business economics history informative slow-paced
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In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe and North America. This "industrious revolution" is the context in which the economi...

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