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Empire of things

Paperback • 2017 • English • 1. edition

Empire of things: how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first

By Trentmann, Frank

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About the book

'Magnificent ...groundbreaking ...a triumph' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'A masterpiece, a delight to read ...a rare and beautiful thing' Gerard DeGroot, The Times What 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 tha...Show more

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ISBN

9780141028743

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

2017

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Empire of things

Format

Paperback

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