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Global goods were central to the material culture of eighteenth-century country houses. Across Europe, mahogany furniture, Chinese wallpapers and Indian textiles formed the backdrop to genteel practices of drinking sweetened coffee, tea and chocolate from Chinese porcelain. They tied these houses and their wealthy owners into global systems of supply and the processes of colonialism and empire.

Global Goods and the Country House builds on these narratives, and then challenges them by decentring our perspective. It offers a comparative framework that explores the definition, ownership and meaning of global goods outside the usual context of European imperial powers. What were global goods and what did they mean for wealthy landowners in places at the 'periphery' of Europe (Sweden and Wallachia), in the British colonies of North America and the Caribbean, or in the extra-colonial context (Japan or Rajasthan)? By addressing these questions, this volume offers fresh insights into the multi-directional flow of goods and cultures that enmeshed the eighteenth-century world. And by placing these goods in their specific material context - from the English country house to the princely palaces of Rajasthan - we gain a better understanding of their use and meaning, and of their role in linking the global and the local.

List of IllustrationsList of TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Comfort, the Home and Home Comforts, Jon Stobart (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Part I -- The Convenient House: Architectural Ideals and Practicalities1. Convenience, Utility and Comfort in British Domestic Architecture of the Long 18th Century, Dale Townshend (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)People in Focus. Masters and Servants: Parallel Worlds in Blondel's Maisons de Plaisance, Aurélien Davrius (ENSA Paris-Malaquais, France)2. Northern Comfort and Discomfort: Spaces and Objects in Swedish Country Houses, c.1740-1800, Johanna Ilmakunnas (University of Turku, Finland)Object in Focus. Marketing the Necessary Comforts in Georgian Dublin, Conor Lucey (University College Dublin, Ireland)3. The Invention of Thermal Comfort in 18th-Century France, Olivier Jandot (Université d'Artois, France)Object in Focus. The Improved Tiled Stove: Sweden's Contribution to Defining Comfort? Cristina Prytz (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)People in Focus. Keeping Warm with Sir John Soane, Diego Bocchini (Independent Scholar, Italy)4. The Spread of Comfort in 19th-Century Belgian Homes, Britt Denis (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)Part II -- Home Making: Objects and Emotions5. Home Making: Comfort in Victorian Middle-Class Homes in Britain and Beyond, Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)Object in Focus. The Ideal Home in 1732: the Uppark Dolls' House as a Study in Comfort, Patricia Ferguson (British Museum, UK)Object in Focus. Comfort Compromised? The 'Bachelor Box' in Finland at the Turn of the 20th Century, Laika Nevalainen (European University Institute, Italy)6. Feeling at Home Abroad: Comfort, Domesticity, and Social Display on the Netherlandish Grand Tour (1585 -- 1815), Gerrit Verhoeven (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)People in Focus. Moving House: Comfort Disrupted in the Domestic and Emotional Lives of an 18th-Century Bachelor, Helen Metcalfe (University of Manchester, UK)7. Home from Home?: Making Life Comfortable in Victorian Barracks, Rowena Willard-Wright (English Heritage, UK)Object in Focus. A Wallpaper Sandwich: Comfort in the Student Room in 19th-Century Cambridge, Serena Dyer (Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, UK)8. Making a Home: Family, Memory and Domestic Space in England c.1750-1830, Jon Stobart (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Object in Focus. The Comfort of Animal 'Things' in Late-Victorian Britain, Julie-Marie Strange (University of Manchester, UK)Afterthoughts: The Comforts of Home, Jon Stobart (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)BibliographyIndex.

Reveals how changes in retailing and shopping were central to the broader transformation of consumption and consumer practices, and questions established ideas about the motivations underpinning consumer choices. Offers new perspectives on the link between supply and demand and the motivations underpinning consumer choices

Introduction: shifting the economic development agenda -- Economic development and the urban system -- Uneven development: geographical specialisation and inter-dependency -- An advanced organic economy: the textile industries -- A mineral-based energy economy: coal-using industries -- The service sector and urban hierarchies -- Spatial integration and the urban system -- Conclusions: the integration of local, regional, national and international economies -- Sources of urban population totals for north-west England in the 1770s -- Probate records as sources of occupational information

The department store is often seen as a revolutionary force: transforming retail practices, shopping experiences, and the high street. It is variously lauded for its role in the democratization of luxury, the introduction of price ticketing and unfettered browsing, and the creation of a fantasy world of goods. As is so often the case, reality is more complex than the image, especially when we move away from the bright lights of the metropolis and start exploring the high streets of provincial towns. Based on a thorough trawl of trade directories, I explore the regional distribution of stores in their 1930s heyday and examine how this distribution developed over time, pushing the discussion back to consider the varied origins of provincial department stores. I then turn to the spatial organization, selling practices, and shopping experience of small samples of stores, questioning the extent to which they formed a monolithic retail type.