My book The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation was published in 1994 (still print). While what follows is bound to be self-referential also presumptuous that it premised on there being some interest these reflections the a quarter century plus later. partial defense has been extensively cited widely acknowledged as an important influential contribution. In period since it...

Luxury in the Eighteenth Century is a welcome collection of essays on a very important topic. Since the 1982 appearance of the path-breaking The Birth of a Consumer Society, studies of consumption in eighteenth-century Western Europe have proliferated to confirm the thesis that the century experienced a dramatic surge in the production and consumption of goods.(1) This new, handsomely-edited vo...

Phosphorus (P) is translocated from vegetative tissues to developing seeds during senescence in annual crop plants, but the impact of this P mobilisation on photosynthesis and plant performance is poorly understood. This study investigated rice (Oryza sativa L.) flag leaf photosynthesis and P remobilisation in a hydroponic study where P was either supplied until maturity or withdrawn permanentl...