Luxury, Morality, and Social Change: Why There Was No Middle‐Class Consciousness in Prerevolutionary France

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Next article No AccessLuxury, Morality, and Social Change: Why There Was No Middle‐Class Consciousness in Prerevolutionary France*Sarah MazaSarah MazaNorthwestern University Search for more articles by this author Northwestern UniversityPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 69, Number 2June 1997 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/245486 Views: 459Total views on this site Citations: 32Citations are reported from Crossref © 1997 by The University of Chicago.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Matthew D'Auria The Shaping of French National Identity, 42 (Dec 2020).https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316423189Chetan Sinha Mood of the Consumer, (Jan 2019): 267–279.https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5690-9.ch012Elizabeth Heath Sugarcoated Slavery: Colonial Commodities and the Education of the Senses in Early Modern France, Critical Historical Studies 5, no.22 (Nov 2018): 169–207.https://doi.org/10.1086/699684Charles Walton Capitalism’s Alter Ego: The Birth of Reciprocity in Eighteenth-Century France, Critical Historical Studies 5, no.11 (Apr 2018): 1–43.https://doi.org/10.1086/697032 Bibliographie, (Sep 2014): 203–215.https://doi.org/10.3917/arco.legay.2014.01.0203Erika Vause Disciplining the Market: Debt Imprisonment, Public Credit, and the Construction of Commercial Personhood in Revolutionary France, Law and History Review 32, no.33 (Jun 2014): 647–682.https://doi.org/10.1017/S073824801400025X Credit and Old Regime Economies of Regard, (Jan 2013): 21–55.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377443-002 Critiques and Crises of the Credit System, (Jan 2013): 56–95.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377443-003 Incredible Style, (Jan 2013): 96–138.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377443-004 Credit in the Female Fashion Trades of Eighteenth-Century Paris, (Jan 2013): 139–194.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377443-005 Fashion Merchants, (Jan 2013): 195–245.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377443-006 Madame Déficit and Her Minister of Fashion, (Jan 2013): 246–282.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377443-007 Family Affairs, (Jan 2013): 283–315.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377443-008 Conclusion, (Jan 2013): 316–328.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377443-009 Notes, (Jan 2013): 329–382.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377443-010 Bibliography, (Jan 2013): 383–406.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377443-011Martin Hájek Morální normalita a sociální struktura současné společnosti, Sociální studia / Social Studies 9, no.44 (Oct 2012): 67.https://doi.org/10.5817/SOC2012-4-67Celso M. 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