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The Idea of Luxury
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Author(s):
Christopher J. Berry
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June 01 2011
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Cambridge University Press
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June 01 2011
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June 16 1994
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10.1017/CBO9780511558368
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Book chapters
pp. xi
Preface
pp. 3
Luxury goods
pp. 45
The Platonic prelude
pp. 63
The Roman response
pp. 87
The Christian contribution
pp. 101
The de-moralisation of luxury
pp. 126
The eighteenth-century debate
pp. 177
The historicity of needs
pp. 199
Luxury and the politics of needs and desires
pp. 231
Luxury, necessity and social identity
pp. 243
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