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Impact Of Consumerism On Atlantic Economy

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The growth of consumerism generated Enlightenment ideas through material goods and helped expand the Atlantic economy. New developments in how commercial goods where manufactured, traded, and used created a time of consumer revolution. With the changes of consumerism came changes in
Enlightenment ideas. It was a cause and effect chain that would create a different way of life for Europe.
While purchasers of consumer goods consisted of a lot of upper and the upper-middle class, the means of creating cheaper reproductions of luxury goods helped fuel consumerism.
For the first time people could buy scientific instruments, books, newspapers, coal stoves, and umbrellas. This is known as the
“consumer revolution”.
The diet of Europeans underwent
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