Selected Savings — Pick Your Favorites Today
Selected Savings — Pick Your Favorites Today

Shopping Cart

Menu

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

Original price was: $23.95.Current price is: $19.16.
  • Free shipping on orders over $40!
  • Secure Payment: Guaranteed safe & secure checkout with encrypted protection.
  • Return within 30 days. Duties & taxes non-refundable.

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 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.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 880
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780141028743
ISBN 10: 0141028742

Add a Review

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related Products

Sound tracks
Sale

Sound tracks

$20.00 $25.00
A Short History of Russia
Sale

A Short History of Russia

$9.60 $12.00
This earthly globe
Sale

This earthly globe

$12.80 $16.00
The Miscellany of Britain
Sale

The Miscellany of Britain

$7.99 $9.99