EMPIRE OF THINGS

What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumer s than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed histo rian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our material world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy a nd the British empire to the present. Astonishingly wide-ranging and richly detailed, Empire of Things explores how we have come to live with...[Read more]