The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material
innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire
explores the rise of key commodities across the globe, and charts
how cosmopolitan consumption emerged as the most distinctive
feature of material life after 1500 as people and things became
ever more entangled. She shows how wider populations gained access
to more new goods than ever before and, through industrious labour
and smuggling, acquired goods that heightened comfort, redefined
leisure and widened access to fashion. Consumption systems shaped
by race and occupation also emerged. Lemire reveals how material
cosmopolitanism flourished not simply in great port cities like
Lima, Istanbul or Canton, but increasingly in rural settlements and
coastal enclaves. The book uncovers the social, economic and
cultural forces shaping consumer behaviour, as well as the ways in
which consumer goods shaped and defined empires and communities.
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