Frank Trentmann
Auteur de Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
A propos de l'auteur
Frank Trentmann is a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and directed the 5 million Cultures of Consumption research program. His last book, Free Trade Nation, won the Boyal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize. He was educated at Hamburg University, the London School of afficher plus Economics and Political Science, and Harvard University. He has been the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, as well as a visiting professor at Bielefeld University, the University of St. Gallen, the British Academy, and the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Socialesin Paris, in 2014 he was awarded the Moore Distinguished Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. afficher moins
Crédit image: Birkbeck, University of London
Œuvres de Frank Trentmann
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (2016) 351 exemplaires
Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture (Cultures of Consumption) (2009) — Directeur de publication — 12 exemplaires
Paradoxes of civil society : new perspectives on modern German and British history (2000) 3 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1965-07-18
- Sexe
- male
- Études
- Hamburg University
London School of Economics and Political Science
Harvard University
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Empire of Things: How We Became a World of C… par Frank Trentmann
Unstructured litany of interesting transformations in consumerism. Keeps jumping around geographically and chronologically like a time-travelling jittery bunny with ADHD on speed.
This is a monumental work that describes what we value and accumulate as “stuff”from the 15th Century to the 21st Century with statistics, charts and copious footnotes. Trentmann debunks many of the myths surrounding the things we own and answers the question, “How does stuff matter?” Our patterns of acquisition have increased and the things we discard are an ever recurring challenge. This is not an easy read. I was fascinated to see the patterns of acquisition reflected against my own lifeline. In this consumer world of ours Trentmann has made a valuable and in depth contribution.… (plus d'informations)
Full of fascinating little facts and well worth the read. Maybe better in the first and last phases and a little too polemic in the middle, but certainly should be on the list of anyone with an interest in how we live today and how we got here.
First, I didn't actually read the Kindle edition. Anyway, there is a lot of interesting material here but for the love of Pete, as someone who knows a good bit about the topic I can only say this could have been said in half the space. Maybe I knew a bit too much about the topic to appreciate the many, many, many examples used, but I just felt this dragged out far too long.
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