Governance of the Consuming Passions

Governance of the Consuming Passions A History of Sumptuary Law

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Publisher's Synopsis

Examines sumptuary laws laws which regulate conspicuous consumption in respect to dress, ornaments, food, and expenditure at weddings and other rites in the context of a historical and comparative sociology of governance which contends that legal regulation needs to be understood through its interdependence on wider processes of economic, social, a

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ISBN: 9780312129224
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Imprint: St. Martin's Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 340.115
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 466
Weight: 0g
Height: 228mm
Width: 146mm
Spine width: 44mm