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Luxury in global perspective : objects and practices, 1600-2000 /
"Global history is predicated on connections and exchange: how connections between far-flung people, places, and objects are forged through a variety of exchanges. As world history has matured as a field, its practitioners have found the movement of commodities between peoples, places, and time...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Studies in comparative world history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : luxury and global history / Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester
- Precious things in motion : luxury and the circulation of jewels in Mughal India / Kim Siebenhüner
- Diamonds as global luxury commodity / Karin Hofmeester
- Gold in twentieth-century India : a luxury? / Bernd-Stefan Grewe
- Chinese porcelain in local and global context : the imperial connection / Anne Gerritsen
- Luxury or commodity? : the success of Indian cotton cloth in the first global age / Giorgio Riello
- The gendered luxury of wax prints in South Ghana : a local luxury good with global roots / Silvia Ruschak
- From Venice to East Africa : history, uses, and meanings of glass beads / Karin Pallaver
- Imports and autarky : tortoiseshell in early modern Japan / Martha Chaiklin
- Tickling and klicking the ivories : the metamorphosis of a global commodity in the nineteenth century / Jonas Kranzer
- The conservation of luxury : safari hunting and the consumption of wildlife in twentieth-century East Africa / Bernhard Gissibl
- Luxury as a global phenomenon : concluding remarks / Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester.