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Empire of Things
How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Trade PB
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ISBN-13:
9780062456342
Veröffentl:
2017
Einband:
Trade PB
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.03.2017
Seiten:
862
Autor:
Frank Trentmann
Gewicht:
1089 g
Format:
228x151x45 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Frank Trentmann is a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and directed the £5 million Cultures of Consumption research program. His last book, Free Trade Nation, won the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize. He was educated at Hamburg University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Harvard University. He has been the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, as well as a visiting professor at Bielefeld University, the University of St. Gallen, the British Academy, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. In 2014 he was awarded the Moore Distinguished Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology.
What we consume has become a central feature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly define ourselves by our possessions, and this ever-richer lifestyle has had an extraordinary impact on our planet. How have we come to live with so much stuff, and how has this changed the course of history?