Michael Kwass (NHC Fellow, 2001–02)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2001–02

Michael Kwass wrote three articles for publication in journals that are also part of his book on Consumer Revolution and Changing Conceptions of Society in Pre-Revolutionary France: "Ordering the World of Goods: Consumer Revolution and the Reclassification of Objects in Eighteenth-Century France (forthcoming in Representations); "Consumption and the World of Ideas: Consumer Revolution and the Moral Economy of the Marquis de Mirabeau; and "Big Hair: Wigs, Fashion, and Consumer Desire in Eighteenth-Century France." His review of Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal's Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870 appeared in American Historical Review (vol. 107 [April 2002]).