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Empire of things : how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first / Frank Trentmann

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2017Edition: First U.S. Harper Perennial editionDescription: xvi, 862 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062456342
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.47
Contents:
Three cultures of consumption
The Enlightenment of consumption
Imperium of things
Cities
The consumer revolution comes home
Age of ideologies
Inside affluence
Asia consumes
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?
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Book Book Greater Project 4 Branch Reference Section Circulation C 339.47 T795e 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 120391d

Includes bibliographical references (pages 693-799) and index.

Three cultures of consumption

The Enlightenment of consumption

Imperium of things

Cities

The consumer revolution comes home

Age of ideologies

Inside affluence

Asia consumes

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?

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