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Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures

The Material World Remade, c.1500–1820

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Buch | Hardcover
370 Seiten
2018
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-19256-9 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
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.
The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire explores the rise of key commodities across the globe, and charts how cosmopolitan consumption emerged as the most distinctive feature of material life after 1500 as people and things became ever more entangled. She shows how wider populations gained access to more new goods than ever before and, through industrious labour and smuggling, acquired goods that heightened comfort, redefined leisure and widened access to fashion. Consumption systems shaped by race and occupation also emerged. Lemire reveals how material cosmopolitanism flourished not simply in great port cities like Lima, Istanbul or Canton, but increasingly in rural settlements and coastal enclaves. The book uncovers the social, economic and cultural forces shaping consumer behaviour, as well as the ways in which consumer goods shaped and defined empires and communities.

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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie New Approaches to Economic and Social History
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 710 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-521-19256-0 / 0521192560
ISBN-13 978-0-521-19256-9 / 9780521192569
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