Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Frank Trentmann’s Empire of Things presents a broad history of consumption, following the changing role of material goods from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first. Spanning centuries of social and economic change, it explores how consumer culture became a defining feature of the modern world.
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Empire of Things explores the history of consumption from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first.
Frank Trentmann examines how the desire for, availability of, and engagement with material goods became increasingly important over time.
The book places consumer culture within a broad historical perspective, tracing its development across centuries.
It offers readers a wide-ranging account of how things came to occupy a central place in modern life.
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