Empire Of Things : How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

Frank Trentmann
Empire Of Things : How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Empire Of Things : How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

Empire Of Things : How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
ISBN: 9780141028743
Publication Date: 18 April 2017

The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years.

We are what we consume. From Renaissance Italy and late Ming China to today's shoppers, this is the epic history of the things that have seduced, enriched and unsettled our lives over the centuries - showing that rampant consumption is a truly global phenomenon, with a much longer history than we realize.

About the Author

Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and directed the GBP5 million Cultures of Consumption research programme. His last book, Free Trade Nation, won the Whitfield Prize for outstanding historical scholarship and achievement from the Royal Historical Society. He was educated at Hamburg University, the LSE and at Harvard, where he received his PhD. In 2014 he was Moore Distinguished Fellow at Caltech.