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Empire of Things

by Frank Trentmann
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780141028743
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 912
  • Original Price: INR 1299.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 634 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Social History

'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

Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and also a Professor of the History of Morality at the University of Helsinki. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at Princeton University and was the director of the £5 million Cultures of Consumption research program. He is the author of Empire of Things and Free Trade Nation. He has been awarded the Whitfield Prize, a Moore Distinguished Fellowship at Caltech, the Austrian Science Book Prize, and the Humboldt Prize for Research by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. He was educated at Hamburg University, the London School of Economics, and Harvard University. He lives in London.

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