Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

The empire of things how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first

✍ Frank Trentmann 📂 Fiction 📅 2015;2016 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd;Allen Lane 🌐 English ⚖ 6 MB 👁 1 views

**The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years** 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