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Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Empire of Things How We Became a World of Consumers from the Fifteenth Century to the TwentyFirst
Author: Frank Trentmann
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 E...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780062456328
ISBN-10: 0062456326
Publication Date: 3/29/2016
Pages: 848
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Publisher: Harper
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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