Ina Baghdiantz Mccabe

A History of Global Consumption (eBook, ePUB)

1500 - 1800

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 - 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using a combination of chronological and thematic discussion, taking a comprehensive and wide-reaching view of a subject that has long been on the historical agenda. The title explores the topic from the rise of the collector in Renaissance Europe to the birth of consumption as a political tool in the eighteenth century.

A History of Global Consumption: 1500 - 1800 is the perfect guide for all students interested in the social, cultural and economic history of the early modern period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317652649
• Artikelnr.: 41502687

Autorenporträt

Professor of History and the Darakjian and Jafarian Chair of Armenian History at Tufts University, USA. Her publications include The Shah's Silk for Europe's Silver: The Eurasian Silk trade of the Julfan Armenians in Safavid Iran and India, 1590-1750 (1999), Diaspora and Entrepreneurial Networks 1600-2000, co-editor (2005) and Orientalism in Early Modern France: Eurasian Trade, Exoticism and the Ancien Régime (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Collecting the World. 2. American Gold: Sugar, Tobacco and
Chocolate. 3. Consuming the New World: Settlements and Transformation. 4.
Domesticating the Exotic. 5. Treasures from the East: Tulips and the
Fashion for Asia's Luxury Goods. 6. Consumption as a Global Phenomenon:
Colonial Dreams and Financial Bubbles in Europe, China's Consumer Culture.
7. Resisting Exotic Luxuries: Simplicity and Boycotts in the Age of
Revolutions.