- Published: 28 January 2016
- ISBN: 9780241198407
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 624
Empire of Things
How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
- Published: 28 January 2016
- ISBN: 9780241198407
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 624
a monumental work that deserves a wide audience. It is both a highly engaging global history of consumer culture and a masterful synthesis of a vast body of literature ... There are few truly global histories of consumer culture, and no study is as meticulous or comprehensive. ... In sum, Frank Trentmann's Empire of Things is a masterpiece of historical analysis that offers a wealth of insights into material desire, changing social norms, state policies, transnational connectivity, and other themes in the history of consumption. Indeed, Empire of Things is a field-defining work that will surely be the standard by which global histories of consumption are measured.
Professor Jeremy Prestholdt, American Historical Review