Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction; 2: Luxury in Historical Context; 3: Industrialism, Materialism and the Birth of a Consumer Society; 4: Mass Production, Mass Consumption and New Consumers of Luxury; 5: At Home in...

Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought."" So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an...