Lemire, Beverly, 1950-

Global trade and the transformation of consumer cultures, 1500-1820 : the material world remade / Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta. - pages cm. - New approaches to economic and social history .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early globalization, rising cosmopolitanism and a new world of goods -- Fabric and furs: a new framework of global consumption -- Dressing world peoples: regulation and cosmopolitan desire -- Smuggling, wrecking and scavenging: or, the informal pathways to consumption -- Tobacco and the politics of consumption -- Stitching the global: contact, connection and translation in needlework arts through the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries -- Conclusion: realizing cosmopolitan material culture.

9780521141055 (paperback : alk. paper) 9780511978814

2017053763


Consumption (Economics)--History.
Commerce--History.
International trade--History.

HC79.C6 / L46 2018

306.309/03