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A History of Global Consumption - 9780415507912

Un libro in lingua di McCabe Ina Baghdiantz edito da Routledge, 2014

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Created as a textbook for a class at Tufts University on the history of consumption, this book is well written in an accessible style and will be of interest to academic teachers in a variety of fields in history, the humanities, and the social sciences, as well as educated general readers with an interest in history, trade, or luxury goods. The author documents that the history of luxury consumption is deeply tied to the history of trade, as one of the things that makes luxury goods expensive and desirable is that they are exotic. It is equally tied to the history of how nations, classes, and cultures present themselves to each other, as they work to improve how much they get out of the exchange through techniques from dazzle to doing without to military conquest. The introductory chapter looks at collecting the world; the closing chapter looks at movements to resist exotic luxuries in the era of the French and American Revolutions. The book is wide-ranging and international in scope, and covers the era from 1500-1800. Individual chapters look at the history of American sugar, tobacco and chocolate; settlement and consuming the New World; the coffee, tea, and porcelain trades and the idea of domesticating the exotic; tulips, Asian luxury goods, and the idea of the Treasures of the East, and consumption as a global phenomenon, in colonialism, European financial bubbles, and Chinese consumer culture. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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