Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures

by Beverly Lemire

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521141052
• ISBN13: 9780521141055
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"