دانلود کتاب Luxury in Global Perspective: Objects and Practices, 1600–2000

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Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Table of contents
List of figures
List of maps
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Methodology
Defining luxury
The practice of luxury
The fragility of luxury
Construction of the volume
1 Precious things in motion: Luxury and the circulation of jewels in Mughal India
Luxury in the Mughal Context
The circulation of gems and iewels in Mughal India
Conclusion
2 Diamonds as global luxury commodity
Changing trajectories
“Mines sufficient to furnish all the world plentifully with diamonds”
“The article of trade to which I am most devoted”
Of princes, sultans, temple dancers, and bourgeois ladies: The consumption of diamonds
Taste in finishing
“Diamonds as plenty as transparent pebbles”
The finishing industry “returns” to its cradle: India
Conclusion
3 Gold in twentieth-century India: A luxury?
The religious and ritual significance of gold
Gold jewelry at weddings
Gold jewelry after the marriage ceremony
The economic functions of gold in everyday life
The hunger for gold in modern India
Conclusion: The question of gold jewelry as a luxury in India
4 Chinese porcelain in local and global context: The imperial connection
Comparing Jizhou and Jingdezhen
Jizhou and Jingdezhen compared: Kiln technology
Jizhou and Jingdezhen compared: Clays
Jizhou and Jingdezhen compared: Location
Jizhou and Jingdezhen compared: Products
The significance of manufacturing for the court
The appeal of Jingdezhen’s ceramics in seventeenth-century European accounts
5 Luxury or commodity? The success of Indian cotton cloth in the first global age
Introduction
A typology of luxury in early modernity
Cotton textiles as “positional luxury” in Mughal India
Cotton textiles as “ceremonial luxury” in Southeast Asia
Cotton textiles as “aspirational luxury” in early modern Europe
Conclusion
6 The gendered luxury of wax prints in South Ghana: A local luxury good with global roots
Clothing from wax prints: Its form and usage
Wax prints – A global history from Indonesia to Europe and onward to West Africa
Vlisco – The luxury brand for wax prints
Female consumers give the cloth its meaning
Concluding remarks
7 From Venice to East Africa: History, uses, and meanings of glass beads
The production side: Murano and Venice
Different contexts, different meanings
Luxury ornaments and small change: The different uses of glass beads
“The fastidious tastes of African women”: The changing demand for glass beads
Luxury or not? Some concluding remarks
8 Imports and autarky: Tortoiseshell in early modern Japan
The natural history of tortoiseshell
An abbreviated world history of tortoiseshell
Tortoiseshell in Japan
Attitudes toward luxury
The luxury of import
The contradictions of trade
Gendered consumption
What’s in a name? Politics, economics, and sumptuary laws
Fakes and forgeries
Conclusions
9 Tickling and clicking the ivories: The metamorphosis of a global commodity in the nineteenth century
The global dimension of ivory
The value regime of ivory
The material dimension of ivory
Tickling the ivories
Substitutes
Protection for elephants
Metamorphosis of the elephant: From supplier of raw material to charismatic animals
10 The conservation of luxury: Safari hunting and the consumption of wildlife in twentieth-century East Africa
Globe-trotting for trophies: The nineteenth-century hunting world
The making of the East African safari
Game as luxury: The political economy of safari hunting
The decadence of the archaic: Safari as a luxury practice
A pastime of the impotent? The end of safari hunting
Conclusion: From conspicuous to conscious consumption?
Index