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Empire of things
How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Author: TRENTMANN Frank
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Publication date: 03-2016
880 p. · Hardback
880 p. · Hardback
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What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our
economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than
workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a
supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank
Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our
material world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy and the British
empire to the present. Astonishingly wide-ranging and richly detailed, Empire
of Things explores how we have come to live with so much more, how
this changed the course of history, and the global challenges we face as a
result.
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