Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: French Taste and Manufacturing at the Crystal Palace Exhibition
  • pt. 1. Consumption in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France. 1. Constructing the Bourgeoisie through Consumption. 2. "To Triumph before Feminine Taste": Female Consumption, Gender, and Women at the Exhibition. 3. Symbols of Status, Signs of Change: Furnishings in the Bourgeois Household
  • pt. 2. The Effect of Bourgeois Demand on French Manufacturing. 4. The Success of Hand Manufacturing in Consumer Goods Industries. 5. Flexible Specialization in Luxury and Art Industries
  • pt. 3. Taste in Politics: The Exhibition as a Watershed. 6. Art for Industry's Sake: Leon de Laborde's Plan for Transforming Taste. 7. Political Economists and Specialized Industrialization
  • Conclusion: Taste and Consumption in Industrial Development.