Article: Women's consumption and the industrial classes of ...
Journal of Social History;  December 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... specifically to the eighteenth century, and if we look ... the most dynamic of eighteenth-century towns; the population ... quickly to the "toys"(buttons, buckles ... last third of the eighteenth century most of the provincial ...

Article: The intimate interior in eighteenth-century French ...
The Magazine Antiques;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... into its own in the eighteenth century. Jean Francois de ... tavern brawls, their eighteenth-century French counterparts ... has put aside his toy drum. His mother ... middle decades of the eighteenth century, warning that their ...

Article: The Art of Domestic Life Family Portraiture in ...
History Today;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Family Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century England Kate Retford ... equivalent in the later eighteenth-century double marital portrait ... literature, playing with toys and games, and in ... foppish folly. In the eighteenth century, in contrast, genteel ...

Article: Palladio minimus: a Georgian dollhouse and the ...
The Magazine Antiques;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... have seen in a London toy-shop, for the furniture ... the first half of the eighteenth century for miniature replicas ... acquired by the Old Salem Toy Museum at Old Salem ... both of which remain in eighteenth-century contexts. Furnished ...

Article: The restoration of a tiny eighteenth-century ship ...
The Magazine Antiques;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... grace. In the latter half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth ... straw marquetry; they carved toys of wood and bone; they made ... 150) a dreadnought of (he eighteenth century--a three-masted, eighty ...

Article: After-death inventories as a source for the study of material ...
Historical Methods;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... consumer culture, data coding, eighteenth-century Amsterdam ... wall decoration, children's toys and games, scientific instruments ... collected over the course of the eighteenth century by the bookkeepers and notaries ...

Article: The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth ...
Journal of Social History;  June 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... born historian, G. J. Barker-Benfield, that it was the eighteenth century that brought the decisive leap into modernity. A mood shift ... services, on clocks and chinaware, teasets, telescopes and toys. Mediated through mirrors and magazines, consumerism heightened ...