This is a research essay of Early Modern World Trade. “Based on your reading of the following works, in what key ways did the global spread of consumer goods during the early modern period change societies? Why, in your view, do these scholars offer such diverse explanations?” Textbook: ‘Introduction’ in The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America, Jennifer Van Horn, pp. 1-29. Also should additonally use 3-4 of the other references (which will be attached).