Consumption, Power, and Identity: Food and Clothing in Modern Times

A socioeconomic history of the use of luxury goods and staples from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Coffee, tea, sugar, spices, opium, silk, cotton, potatoes, and rice. National and social identity through commodities, culinary traditions, and clothing fashions. Consumerism and daily life in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. The importance of exports from Asia and the Americas to Europe and of manufactured exports from Europe to Asia and the Americas. Addresses problems of globalization and ecology. Baghdiantz-McCabe