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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Trentmann, Frank. Empire of things. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] (OCoLC)933728457 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Frank Trentmann |
ISBN: | 9780062456335 0062456334 9780241198407 0241198402 |
OCLC Number: | 945729946 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2020. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 862 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Three Cultures of Consumption -- The Enlightenment of Consumption -- Imperium of Things -- Cities -- The Consumer Revolution comes Home -- Age of Ideologies -- Inside Affluence -- Asia Consumes -- Buy Now, Pay Later -- Not So Fast -- From the Cradle to the Grave -- Outside the Marketplace -- Home and Away -- Matters of the Spirit -- Throwaway Society? |
Responsibility: | Frank Trentmann. |
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a monumental work that deserves a wide audience. It is both a highly engaging global history of consumer culture and a masterful synthesis of a vast body of literature ... There are few truly global histories of consumer culture, and no study is as meticulous or comprehensive. ... In sum, Frank Trentmann's Empire of Things is a masterpiece of historical analysis that offers a wealth of insights into material desire, changing social norms, state policies, transnational connectivity, and other themes in the history of consumption. Indeed, Empire of Things is a field-defining work that will surely be the standard by which global histories of consumption are measured. -- Professor Jeremy Prestholdt * American Historical Review * Read more...

