Research Catalog

Title

A history of global consumption : 1500-1800 / Ina Baghdiantz McCabe.

Author

Baghdiantz McCabe, Ina

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

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Details

Description

x, 301 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period. Takes a chronological and global view to the discussion of evolving consumer practice and culture between 1500 and 1800"--

Subject

• 1500-1800
• Consumption (Economics) > History
• HISTORY / World
• HISTORY / Social History
• HISTORY / Modern / General
• Consumption (Economics)

Genre/Form

History

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780415507912 (hardback)
• 041550791X (hardback)
• 9780415507929 (paperback)
• 0415507928 (paperback)
• 9781315763897 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• ^^2014004226
• 40024050002

OCLC

• 871191868
• SCSB-12323495

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library