This introduction covers key issues that affected the social and business lives of eighteenth-century upholders. These issues and selective views about the importance of apprenticeship and livery companies, empire, material culture, consumption and consumerism, advertising, and credit are surveyed. There were significant shifts in several areas in the second half of the eighteenth century that shaped upholders’ activities.

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Introduction

  • Steven Sanders

摘要

This introduction covers key issues that affected the social and business lives of eighteenth-century upholders. These issues and selective views about the importance of apprenticeship and livery companies, empire, material culture, consumption and consumerism, advertising, and credit are surveyed. There were significant shifts in several areas in the second half of the eighteenth century that shaped upholders’ activities.