The putting out or domestic system, once a traditional subject ofresearch among students of the origins of the Industrial Revolution, has recently been revitalised and transformed into a supposedly new subject with the new name of 'proto-industrialisation' Detached from its earlier mercantile...

In this book, Maxine Berg explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth century. It follows these goods, from china tea ware to all sorts of metal ornaments such as candlesticks, cutlery, buckles, and buttons, as they were...