Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and provided access to these new commodities that increasingly became important in the 'Old World', especially with regard to the establishment early modern consumer societies. This book brings together specialists from a range of historical fields to analyse the establishment of these commodity chains from the Americas to Europe as well as their cultural implications.
ISBN: | 9781138385153 |
Publication date: | 21st August 2019 |
Author: | Martina Kaller, Frank Jacob |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 218 pages |
Series: | Routledge Studies in Modern History |
Genres: |
Colonialism and imperialism Social and cultural history Economic history General and world history European history |