商品簡介
Consumption -- and our identity as consumers -- has profoundly changed society, politics and the way we live. This is its remarkable history.
What we consume has become a central -- perhaps the central -- element of personal identity, public life, and political debate. The world is overflowing with things, and people are spending more and more time and money consuming them. This book unfolds the history that has shaped the modern and material world, from the take--off of consumption in the 18th century to the present, and engages fully with contemporary concerns about consumerism and consumer society.
作者簡介
FRANK TRENTMANN has been Assistant Professor at Princeton University and, since 2007, Professor of History at Birkbeck. From 2002 to 2007 he was the director of the ￡5 million Cultures of Consumption research programme. His edited volumes includeConsuming Cultures, Global Perspectives (with John Brewer) and The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption. His last book, Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain, won the Whitfield Prize for outstanding historical scholarship and achievement.
