Frank Trentmann: 1 book
Empire of Things
How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
What we consume has become a central—perhaps the central—feature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly define ourselves by our possessions, and this ever-richer lifestyle has had an extraordinary impact on our planet. How have we come to live with so much stuff,...
