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Title Empire of things : how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first / Frank Trentmann.
Author Trentmann, Frank, author.
Publisher New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Description xvi, 862 pages, 24 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Edition First U.S. edition.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages 693-799) and index.
NOTE Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by Allen Lane.
Contents Three cultures of consumption -- The enlightenment of consumption -- Imperium of things -- Cities -- The consumer revolution comes home -- Age of ideologies -- Inside affluence -- Asia consumes -- 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Consumption (Economics) -- History.
Materialism -- United States -- Social aspects.
ISBN 9780062456328
0062456326