Luxury in Global Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Karin Hofmeester is senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam and Professor of Jewish Culture at Antwerp University. Bernd-Stefan Grewe is Professor of Modern History and Didactics of History at the University of Education in Freiburg, Germany. Klappentext Using luxury goods as a conduit, Luxury in Global Perspective enriches our understanding of global history.This anthology charts the different contexts in which luxury objects have been used across the globe, ranging from the social practices linked to these objects to their production, exchange, and consumption. Using luxury goods as a conduit, Luxury in Global Perspective enriches our understanding of global history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Luxury and global history Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester; 1. Precious things in motion: luxury and the circulation of jewels in Mughal India Kim Siebenhüner; 2. Diamonds as a global luxury commodity Karin Hofmeester; 3. Gold in twentieth-century India - a luxury? Bernd-Stefan Grewe; 4. Chinese porcelain local and global context: the imperial connection Anne Gerritsen; 5. Luxury or commodity? The success of Indian cotton cloth in the first global age Giorgio Riello; 6. The gendered luxury of wax prints in South Ghana: a local luxury good with global roots Silvia Ruschak; 7. From Venice to East Africa: history, uses and meanings of glass beads Karin Pallaver; 8. Imports and autarky: tortoiseshell in early modern Japan Martha Chaiklin; 9. Tickling and klicking the ivories - the metamorphosis of a global commodity in the nineteenth century Jonas Kranzer; 10. The conservation of luxury: safari hunting and the consumption of wildlife in twentieth-century East Africa Bernhard Gissibl; 11. Luxury as a global phenomenon: concluding remarks Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester.

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• Authors: Bernd-Stefan Grewe, Karin Hofmeester, Karin Grewe Hofmeester
• Assisted by: Bernd-Stefan Grewe (Editor), Grewe Bernd-Stefan (Editor), Karin Hofmeester (Editor), Hofmeester Karin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107108325
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10832-5
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in Comparative World History; Studies in Comparative World H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / World, General & world history, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, General and world history, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards