Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-FirstHarperCollins, 29. mars 2016 - 880 sider 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, and how has this changed the course of history? In Empire of Things, Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary story of our modern material world, from Renaissance Italy and late Ming China to today’s global economy. While consumption is often portrayed as a recent American export, this monumental and richly detailed account shows that it is in fact a truly international phenomenon with a much longer and more diverse history. Trentmann traces the influence of trade and empire on tastes, as formerly exotic goods like coffee, tobacco, Indian cotton and Chinese porcelain conquered the world, and explores the growing demand for home furnishings, fashionable clothes and convenience that transformed private and public life. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought department stores, credit cards and advertising, but also the rise of the ethical shopper, new generational identities and, eventually, the resurgence of the Asian consumer. With an eye to the present and future, Frank Trentmann provides a long view on the global challenges of our relentless pursuit of more—from waste and debt to stress and inequality. A masterpiece of research and storytelling many years in the making, Empire of Things recounts the epic history of the goods that have seduced, enriched and unsettled our lives over the past six hundred years. |
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... Japan and West Germany joined the club of affluent societies with a ticket stamped 'savings', not cheap credit. Instead of suspecting everywhere a creeping monoculture, we need to appreciate the continuing hybridity and diversity amidst ...
... Japan, Finland, Denmark and Spain increased their social spending by 4 per cent in this period.18 Without the coupled rise of welfare services and social equality, 'mass consumption' would have been less massive. To exclude the ...
... Japan.5 American tobacco, turkey, maize (corn) and the sweet potato went to China; cotton textiles from Gujarat and the Coromandel coast found new customers in Europe and her Atlantic colonies, in addition to established markets in Japan ...
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Innhold
Imperium of Things | |
Cities | |
Buy Now Pay Later | |
Not So Fast | |
From the Cradle to the Grave | |
Outside the Marketplace | |
Home and Away | |
Matters of the Spirit | |
Throwaway Society? | |
Epilogue | 32 |
The Consumer Revolution Comes Home | |
Age of Ideologies | |
Inside Affluence | |
Asia Consumes | |
PART | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgements | 47 |
Index | 128 |
Illustrations | 211 |
About the Author | 271 |
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