In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York Times bestselling Provence, 1970, transpo
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The grand opening, 1889. The hotelier and the impresario ; A London debut ; An offer too good to refuse -- Boomtown, 189
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n The Theory of the Leisure Class, Veblen writes critically of conspicuous consumption and its function in social-class
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It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture—which is considered derivative of Eur
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Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their
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In a social and cultural study of nineteenth-century bourgeois women in northern France, Bonnie Smith shows how the adve
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Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today.
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Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) was the first great star of modern cooking. Acknowledged during his lifetime as the greate
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In this work, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which by the late 1800s had
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