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

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

Beverly Lemire is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta, Canada. She publishes widely in textile history, gender and economic development, and material history and was founding Director of the University of Alberta's Material Culture Institute. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003.

Summary

Beverly Lemire charts the rise of the cosmopolitan material cultures that reshaped the world c.1500 to 1820. She reveals the role of social, economic and cultural forces in shaping consumer behaviour, as well as the ways in which consumer goods shaped and defined empires and communities.

Product details

• Authors: Beverly Lemire, Beverly (University of Alberta) Lemire, Lemire Beverly
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780521192569
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19256-9
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: New Approaches to Economic and Social History; New Approaches to Economic and; New Approaches to Economic and Social History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, General & world history, Social and cultural history, General and world history