From Graven Images
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From Graven Images

Patterns of Modern Materialism

Chandra Mukerji

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  2. English
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From Graven Images

Patterns of Modern Materialism

Chandra Mukerji

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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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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780231882767
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Manufacturing
Index
Business
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

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Patterns of Modern Materialism
  5. 2. Pictorial Prints and the Growth of Consumerism: Class and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Culture
  6. 3. A New World-Picture: Maps as Capital Goods for the Modern World System
  7. 4. Scientific Materialism: The Book of Nature and the Growth of Rational Calculation
  8. 5. Culture and Industrialization, Part I: The Fashion for Calicoes
  9. 6. Culture and Industrialization, Part II: The British Cotton Industry
  10. 7. Materialism and Social Change
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index