The Material World Remade, c.1500–1820
by
Beverly Lemire
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
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...