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On demand : writing for the market in early modern England /
In early modern England, while moralists railed against the theatre as wasteful and depraved, and inflation whittled away at the value of wages, people attended the theatre in droves. This book draws on recent economic history and theory to account for this puzzling consumer behaviour. The author sh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In early modern England, while moralists railed against the theatre as wasteful and depraved, and inflation whittled away at the value of wages, people attended the theatre in droves. This book draws on recent economic history and theory to account for this puzzling consumer behaviour. The author shows that during this period, demand itself, with its massed acquisitive energies, transformed the English economy. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 199 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0804772908 9780804772907 |