Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Acknowledgments XIII
5. 1. Patterns of Modern Materialism 1
6. 2. Pictorial Prints and the Growth of Consumerism: Class and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Culture 30
7. 3. A New World-Picture: Maps as Capital Goods for the Modern World System 79
8. 4. Scientific Materialism: The Book of Nature and the Growth of Rational Calculation 131
9. 5. Culture and Industrialization, Part I: The Fashion for Calicoes 166
10. 6. Culture and Industrialization, Part II: The British Cotton Industry 210
11. 7. Materialism and Social Change 243
12. Notes 262
13. Bibliography 305
14. Index 321