Material goods, moving hands

Material goods, moving handsIn eighteenth century Britain, greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever greater quantities. As consumers rather than producers, how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change? Material goods and moving hands combines material culture and visual culture approaches to explore the different ways in which manufacturers and retailers presented production to consumers during the

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