Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, C.1500-1820

ISBN-13: 9780521141055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 370 str.

Beverly Lemire

Opis

Charts the rise of consumerism and the new cosmopolitan material cultures that took shape across the globe from 1500 to 1820.

Recenzje

'… an important project dedicated to decentering our understanding of global commodity flows through both written and material cultural evidence.' Jane Hooper, Canadian Journal of History

Spis treści

1. Early globalisation, rising cosmopolitanism and a new world of goods; 2. Fabric and furs: a new framework of global consumption; 3. Dressing world peoples: regulation and cosmopolitan desire; 4. Smuggling, wrecking and scavenging: or, the informal pathways to consumption; 5. Tobacco and the politics of consumption; 6. Stitching the global: contact, connection and translation in needlework arts in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries; 7. Conclusion: realising cosmopolitan material culture.