books.google.co.uk - A fascinating study of the ways in which the consumption of luxury goods transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. Linda Levy Peck charts the development of new ways of shopping; new aspirations and identities shaped by print, continental...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Consuming_Splendor.html?id=-jM0ZvlYofoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareConsuming Splendor
