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Empire of Things - How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (Paperback)
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Empire of Things - How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (Paperback)
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'Magnificent ... groundbreaking ... a triumph' Peter Frankopan,
author of The Silk Roads 'A masterpiece, a delight to read ... a
rare and beautiful thing' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 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. 'I read Empire Of Things
with unflagging fascination ... elegant, adventurous and colourful
... gleefully provocative' John Preston, Daily Mail 'Such a
pleasure to read ... From Victorian department stores to modernist
kitchens, his book revels in the things that most historians tend
to overlook' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
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