'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic.

MAXINE BERG Professor of History and Director of the Warwick Eighteenth-Century Centre at the University of Warwick, UK ELIZABETH EGER Lecturer in the Department of English, King's College London, UK EDWARD HUNDERT Professor Emeritus of History, University of British Columbia, Canada JAN DE VRIES Professor of History and Economics, University of California, Berkeley,USA ANNIE RICHARDSON Lecturer at the Winchester School of Art,UK MICHAEL MCKEON is Professor of English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA DENA GOODMAN Professor of History, University of Michigan, USA LAURENCE FONTAINE Professor of History, The European University Institute and CRNS, Paris, France JOHN STYLES Director of the MA in the History of Design, V&A/Royal College of Art, UK VIVIEN JONES Senior Lecturer in English, University of Leeds, UK ROS BALLASTER Fellow and Tutor in English Literature, Mansfield College, Oxford, UK JOHN CROWLEY George Munro Professor of History, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada JENNY UGLOW Honorary Professor of the Department of English, University of Warwick, UK SHELAGH VAINKER Curator of Eastern Arts at the Ashmolean, Oxford and Fellow of St. Hugh's College, Oxford, UK REBECCA EARLE Lecturer in Comparative American Studies, University of Warwick, UK.