Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the 15th Century to the 21st by Frank Trentmann

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the 15th Century to the 21st

Frank Trentmann

880 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics sociology informative slow-paced
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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...

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