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Empire of Things

By Frank Trentmann

Book information

Year
2015
ISBN
9780241198407
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
110 MB (115595739 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2024-03-01 05:15:18

Description

The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 yearsWhat 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.....M.F

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