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Part I. Introduction to civilization -- The nature of civilization -- How civilizations perish -- The second great crisis of civilization in history -- The global civilization development and its repercussions -- Part II. Civilization in crisis -- The death triangle of civilization in the 21st century -- Capitalism and the 21st century limits of civilization -- Superconsumerism in the 21st century -- Technology and the limits of civilization in the 21st century -- Climate and the 21st century limits of civilization -- Culture and the 21st century limits of civilization -- Part III. End of civilization? -- The power of crisis relations and the limits of civilization in the 21st century -- Can civilization last? -- Where are we heading?

Surface tension: objectifying ginseng in Chinese early modernity / Carla Nappi -- Going to the birds: animals as things and beings in early modernity / Marcy Norton -- The restless clock / Jessica Riskin -- "Stil-staende dingen": picturing objects in the Dutch Golden Age / Julie Hochstrasser -- "Things seen and unseen": the material culture of early modern inventories and their representation of domestic interiors / Giorgio Riello -- Costume and character in the Ottoman Empire: dress as social agent in Nicolay's Navigations / Chandra Mukerji -- Making things: techniques and books in early modern Europe / Pamela H. Smith -- Capricious demands: artisanal goods, business strategies, and consumer behavior in seventeenth-century Florence / Corey Tazzara -- Catalogical encounters: worldmaking in early modern cabinets of curiosities / Surekha Davies -- Unruly objects: Baroque fantasies and early modern realities / Molly Warsh -- The taste of others: finery, the slave trade, and Africa's place in the traffic in early modern things / Cécile Fromont -- Locating rhubarb: early modern Russia's relevant obscurity / Erika Monahan -- The world in a shilling: silver coins and the challenge of political economy in the early modern Atlantic World / Mark A. Peterson -- Anatolian timber and Egyptian grain: things that made the Ottoman Empire / Alan Mikhail -- The Tokugawa storehouse: Ieyasu's encounters with things / Morgan Pitelka -- Porcelain for the poor: the material culture of tea and coffee consumption in eighteenth-century Amsterdam / Anne E.C. McCants -- Fashioning difference in Georgian England: furniture for him and for her / Amanda Vickery.