Consuming splendor: society and culture in seventeenth-century England

'I must have a pair of Damasked spurs': shopping in seventeenth-century London

'We may as well be silk-masters as sheep-masters': transferring technology in seventeenth-century England

'What do you lack? What isn't you buy?': creating new wants

'Anything that is strange': from rarities to luxury goods

'Examine but my humors in buildings, gardening, and private expenses': cultural exchange and the new built environment

'The pictures I desire to have ... must be exquisitely done and by the best masters': luxury and war: 1640-1660

'Rome's artists in this nature can do no more': a Bernini in Chelsea

'The largest, best built, and richest city in the world': The Royal Society, luxury manufactures, and aristocratic identity

New wants, new wares: luxury consumption, cultural change, and economic transformation.