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Author Mukerji, Chandra.

Title From graven images : patterns of modern materialism / Chandra Mukerji
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 1983

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Description xiv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Patterns of modern materialism -- 2. Pictorial prints and the growth of consumerism: class and cosmopolitanism in early modern culture -- 3. A new world-picture: maps as capital goods for the modern world system -- 4. Scientific materialism: the book of nature and the growth of rational calculation -- 5. Culture and industrialization, Part I: the fashion for calicoes -- 6. Culture and industrialization, Part II: the British cotton industry -- 7. Materialism and social change
Analysis Western Europe Economic development, 1400-1800
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [305]-319
Subject Consumption (Economics) -- History.
Manufactures -- Europe -- History.
Manufacturing industries -- Europe -- History.
Materialism -- History.
Popular culture -- History.
Printing -- History.
SUBJECT Europe http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 -- Manufactures -- History
LC no. 83010148
ISBN 0231051662 (jacket : alk. paper)
0231051670 (paperback)