'This exquisitely crafted book transforms our understanding of early modern material culture and provides a new global framework of analysis. Lemire shows how cloth and clothing, fur, tobacco and other global commodities reshaped people's habits, social practices and material expectations in different parts of the world.' Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick

'Beverly Lemire, a leading scholar of the history of European fashion, clothing and consumer culture, suggests that changes to consumer consumption in the early modern period were inherently global. In so doing, she refocuses the agents of globalization from Europe to the globe, from elites and the middle class to the subaltern, and from where things are produced to where people live their lives.' Kaoru Sugihara, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto

'Lemire takes the study of early globalization and material culture a large step further with this book. Cosmopolitan consumption, her term for the integration of new goods into the material cultures of the world's peoples, succeeds in creating a truly global history of evolving consumer practices. This study abounds with fresh insights into the agency of goods and agency of ordinary people.' Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley