Trentmann, Frank
Empire of things : how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first Frank Trentmann - New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, c2016. - xiii, 862 p. : ill.+ 8 p. of plates ; 24 cm.
Introduction -- Part one. Three cultures of consumption -- The Enlightenment of consumption -- Imperium of things -- Cities -- The consumer revolution comes home -- Age of ideologies -- Inside affluence -- Asia consumes -- Part two. Preface -- Buy now, pay later -- Not so fast -- From the cradle to the grave -- Outside the marketplace -- Home and away -- Matters of the spirit -- Throwaway society? -- Epilogue.
Looks at the history of the growth of consumerism, exposing the international nature of its expansion through the last six hundred years, and the challenges it poses to the planet.
9780062456328
Consumption (Economics)--History
Consumption (Economics)
Materialism--Social aspects--United States
Mass society
339.4709 TR EM
Empire of things : how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first Frank Trentmann - New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, c2016. - xiii, 862 p. : ill.+ 8 p. of plates ; 24 cm.
Introduction -- Part one. Three cultures of consumption -- The Enlightenment of consumption -- Imperium of things -- Cities -- The consumer revolution comes home -- Age of ideologies -- Inside affluence -- Asia consumes -- Part two. Preface -- Buy now, pay later -- Not so fast -- From the cradle to the grave -- Outside the marketplace -- Home and away -- Matters of the spirit -- Throwaway society? -- Epilogue.
Looks at the history of the growth of consumerism, exposing the international nature of its expansion through the last six hundred years, and the challenges it poses to the planet.
9780062456328
Consumption (Economics)--History
Consumption (Economics)
Materialism--Social aspects--United States
Mass society
339.4709 TR EM