On Luxury: A Cautionary Tale: A Short History of the Perils of Excess from Ancient Times to the Beginning of the Modern Era

by William Howard Adams

Book Overview

Diamond-encrusted, alligator-skin handbags. Eighteen-course feasts. Yachts the length of city blocks. In the twenty-first century, many point to such conspicuous consumption as reflecting the moral... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612344178
• ISBN13: 9781612344171
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"