Luxury and Modern Global Order

Whether private-jet carbon emissions, haute couture, or the diamond trade: how we judge luxury is surprisingly closely tied to how we view global order. So what role exactly does luxury play in modern global order? Based on a historical-sociological investigation of the maritime fur trade, the gold rushes, and the World's Fairs, LUX is the first comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century contestation of luxury at the level of global order. It has three objectives: a conceptual history of luxury with a focus on global order