Did boulton sell silver plate to the middle class? A quantitative study of luxury marketing in late eighteenth-century Britain

Journal of Macromarketing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-64

  Quickenden, Kenneth ^a   Kover, Arthur J ^b  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Luxury goods; Matthew Boulton; Silver; Social class

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947649491     PISSN: 02761467     EISSN: 15526534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0276146706296711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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