Charts the rise of consumerism and the new cosmopolitan material cultures that took shape across the globe from 1500 to 1820.

The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire explores the rise of key comm

In this book, the authors set forth a new model of globalization that lays claims to supersede existing models, and then use this model to assess the way the pr

A pervasive force, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels

The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire explores the rise of key comm