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Download or read book Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th - 19th Centuries written by Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and diverse analyses connecting the circulation of people with the circulation of ideas. Making use of archive materials, visual sources and museum collections, the authors point out the richness of the region and the role of women in promoting new ideas of modernity. This will help the public to better know and understand the importance of women's sociability in building new nations and constructing new identities in South-Eastern Europe and beyond.