
Empire of Things
How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
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Narrated by:
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Mark Meadows
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By:
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Frank Trentmann
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.
In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our material world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy and the British Empire to the present. Astonishingly wide ranging and richly detailed, Empire of Things explores how we have come to live with so much more, how this changed the course of history and the global challenges we face as a result.
Frank Trentmann is a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and directed the £5 million Cultures of Consumption research programme. His last book, Free Trade Nation, won the Whitfield Prize for outstanding historical scholarship and achievement from the Royal Historical Society. He was educated at Hamburg University, the LSE and Harvard, where he received his PhD. In 2014 he was Moore Distinguished Fellow at Caltech.
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Technically, no glitches, smooth audio and comfortable tone of voice that did not put me to slep!Who was your favorite character and why?
not appicableHave you listened to any of Mark Meadows’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
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if possible, definitely...alas, I have a job, lol.Any additional comments?
These types of books, on society, economics and even politics and power, are not read enough. I highly recommend that our citizenry start learning about what not only makes our world turn, but what makes is come to a screeching halt. You can start with this book.truly informative
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An exhaustive attempt to get the story right
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It's not a nail-biter, but worthy of listening
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The unnecessary length and the lack of solutions to the mess described.
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Love it
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good info but British drabby
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