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Selling Beauty : Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750-1830.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (239 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801898792
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Selling BeautyDDC classification:
  • 381/.4566850944
LOC classification:
  • HD9970.5.C673 -- F866 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Practices of Beauty: The Creation of a Consumer Market -- 2 A Market for Beauty: The Production of Cosmetics -- 3 Advertising Beauty: The Culture of Publicity -- 4 Maligning Beauty: The Critics Take on Artifice -- 5 Domesticating Beauty: The Medical Supervision of Women's Toilette -- 6 Selling Natural Artifice: Entrepreneurs Redefine the Commerce of Cosmetics -- 7 Selling the Orient: From the Exotic Harem to Napoleon's Colonial Enterprise -- 8 Selling Masculinity: The Commercial Competition over Men's Hair -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
Summary: Rather than disappearing along with the Old Regime, the commerce of cosmetics, reimagined and redefined, flourished in the early 19th century, as political ideals and Enlightenment philosophies radically altered popular sentiment.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Practices of Beauty: The Creation of a Consumer Market -- 2 A Market for Beauty: The Production of Cosmetics -- 3 Advertising Beauty: The Culture of Publicity -- 4 Maligning Beauty: The Critics Take on Artifice -- 5 Domesticating Beauty: The Medical Supervision of Women's Toilette -- 6 Selling Natural Artifice: Entrepreneurs Redefine the Commerce of Cosmetics -- 7 Selling the Orient: From the Exotic Harem to Napoleon's Colonial Enterprise -- 8 Selling Masculinity: The Commercial Competition over Men's Hair -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

Rather than disappearing along with the Old Regime, the commerce of cosmetics, reimagined and redefined, flourished in the early 19th century, as political ideals and Enlightenment philosophies radically altered popular sentiment.

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