Baubles of Britain
The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3200397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T H Breen (0000-0001-7231-3725, Northwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-104 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Past & Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/past/119.1.73 |
| OpenAlex | W2016229310 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 70 |
"BAUBLES OF BRITAIN": THE AMERICAN AND CONSUMER REVOLUTIONS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Get access T. H. Breen T. H. Breen Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 119, Issue 1, May 1988, Pages 73–104, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/119.1.73 Published: 01 May 1988
Economic history · Classics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis
A World of Goods? The ‘Consumption Turn’ and Eighteenth-Century British History
Cherubs or Putti? Gravemarkers Demonstrating Conspicuous Consumption and the Rococo Fashion in the Eighteenth Century
Time for a Tea Party? Why Tax Regimes beyond the Nation State Matter, and Why Citizens Should Care
The Sacred and the Profane in Consumer Behavior
Colonial Consumers in Revolt
The Politics of the Dance Floor
Selling Gentility and Pretending Morality
British Governments, Colonial Consumers, and Continental European Goods in the British Atlantic Empire, 1763–1775
Market Affections
Slow food and the politics of pork fat
Prices and the value of English exports in the eighteenth century
Rehabilitating the Industrial Revolution
Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America
The American School of Empire
Colonial America and the Early Republic
The Passion to Consume
At the Edge of the Storm
The Study of Borderlands Consumption
El Dompe , Los Yonkes , and Las Segundas
Confined to the Margins
Drawing Boundaries between Markets, Nations, and Peoples, 1650-1940
Using and Sharing
Disrupting Boundaries
Finding Mexico’s Great Show Window
Cinema on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Selling the Border
Domesticating the Border
On La Frontera and Cultures of Consumption
Promoting the Pacific Borderlands
The Origins of Globalization
The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century
Emulation and Empowerment
Shopping as meaningful action
Imperial Political Economy and Its Discontents in Colonial New York City, 1664-1763
The Third Sex
Keeping Up Appearances
Siege Mentalities
The shop at ‘the head of the Town-Dock, at the Corner of Wing’s Lane’
The American boycott of British goods, 1764-1770
Of codfish, cane, and contraceptives
James Otis and the Glorious Revolution in America
Subject or Signifier
In Small Things Forgotten
The Country Attorney in Late Eighteenth-Century England
Engendering Visible and invisible ceramic artifacts, especially dairy vessels
Delaware archaeology and the revolutionary eighteenth century
America's changing image in Ireland's looking‐glass
The Polite Threshold in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain
Widow Pratt’s Possessions
Commentary
Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain
Presentation. Paths, Detours, and Connections
The Production and Consumption of Lawn-Tennis Shoes in Late-Victorian Britain
Consumption in Early Modern Europe. A Review Article
Accessing Empire
Slave sugar boycotts, female activism and the domestic base of British anti‐slavery culture 1
The Marketplace of Revolution
North Britishness and the nature of eighteenth-century British patriotisms
Tobacco-Taking and Identity-Making in Early Modern Britain and North America
Building Liberal Identities in 19th Century Madrid
Consumer culture and participatory democracy
Modernity, Urbanism, and Modern Consumption
Bound Together
The Quest for America
Archaeology and Probate Inventories in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Life
Consumption and material culture in sixteenth-century Ireland1
The origins of American capitalism
Colonial Entanglements and the Practices of Taste
A brief history of frugality discourses in the United States
What Empires Can and Can't Do
| Unique citing works | 70 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,89 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2025 (37) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 58 |