The empire of things : how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first
Frank Trentmann (Author)
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. This book explores how we have come to live with so much more, how this changed the course of history, and more.
History
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9780241198407, 0241198402
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