Begins in the 15th century, during what historians call the commercial revolution or a time when expanding trade changed the European economy, and traces the patterns of materialism through the late 1990's.
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IO
PATTERNS
OF
MATERIALISM
sils
and
contacts
at
table
increased.
The
new
scale
and
variety
of
objects
offered
opportunities
for
new
uses
of
goods
and
new
cul-
tural
values
for
regulating
their
use.
18
The
sheer
number
of
objects
available
to
people
and
the
in-
creasing
manufacture
of
goods
for
practical
use—such
as
clocks,
books,
maps,
and
guns—also
began
to
affect
practical
activities.
Abraham
van
Beyeren,
Still
Life,
1666.
BY
PERMISSION
OF
THE
ART
MUSÉUMS
OF
SAN
FRANCISCO.
GIFT
OF
DE
YOUNG
MUSEUM
SOCIETY.
Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Patterns of Modern Materialism
- 2. Pictorial Prints and the Growth of Consumerism: Class and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Culture
- 3. A New World-Picture: Maps as Capital Goods for the Modern World System
- 4. Scientific Materialism: The Book of Nature and the Growth of Rational Calculation
- 5. Culture and Industrialization, Part I: The Fashion for Calicoes
- 6. Culture and Industrialization, Part II: The British Cotton Industry
- 7. Materialism and Social Change
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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