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 | | Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400-1800: The Rise of Consumerism by S. A. M. Adshead ISBN-10: 9780312172855 ISBN-10: 0-312-17285-0 ISBN-13: 9780312172855 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-17285-5 Hardcover 1997-08-15 Palgrave Macmillan Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Consumerism is increasingly recognized as a key factor in the modern world. The global economy, it has been said, is driven as much by taste as technology. Yet consumerism has seldom been studied as a global overlay or incipient world institution. Adshead argues that consumerism began in an interaction between Europe and China during the Great Discoveries. A comparison of its subsequent development in both west and east highlights both the unity and the diversity of consumerism. What are presented here are less the details of consumption than the patterns of it, and the reasons, conscious and unconscious, for them. | ||