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Constance Booker
A Cultural Plutocracy? Transnational families and the display of luxury goods in Britain and in France between 1870 and 1930
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| A Cultural Plutocracy? Transnational families and the display of luxury goods in Britain and in France between 1870 and 1930 in the Department of History |
Research interests
- Her thesis explores the material and social identities of transnational families in England and in France, c.1870-1930. By studying the houses, collections and patterns of consumption of a dozen families, her project aims to examine the cultural and stylistic values that underpinned their supranational identity and taste.