Consumption is always embedded in social and cultural contexts. The consumer society is a relatively new phenomenon of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When a person buys something, the social environment, ...
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The Habsburg dynasty: Here you can read potted biographies, examine portraits from seven centuries and dip into the historical contexts of past epochs.
Select a period in Habsburg history, from the beginnings of Habsburg rule in the Middle Ages to the collapse of the Monarchy during the First World War.