1. On the luxury debates in China and Japan, see Craig Clunas, ‘Anxieties about Things’, in Craig Clunas, Superfluous Things. Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 141–65;
2. Peter Burke, ‘Res et verba: Conspicuous Consumption in the Early Modern World’, in John Brewer and Roy Porter, eds, Consumption and the World of Goods (London, 1993), pp. 148–62;
3. Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence. China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton, 2000), pp. 127–51.
4. For a fine discussion of the development of these concepts, see Guido Guerzoni, ‘Liberalitas, Magnificentia, Splendor: the Classic Origins of Italian Renaissance Lifestyles’, in Neil De Marchi and Craufurd D.W. Goodwin, eds, Economic Engagements with Art (Durham, NC and London, 1999), pp. 332–78.
5. Andrew Sherratt, ‘Reviving the Grand Narrative: Archaeology and Long-term Change’, Journal of European Archaeology, vol. 3 (1995), pp. 1–32, pp. 12–14.