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