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

from TeaTimeCoder

Unstructured litany of interesting transformations in consumerism. Keeps jumping around geographically and chronologically like a time-travelling jittery bunny with ADHD on speed.

from kaitanya64

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...

from expatscot

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.

from mcdenis

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 pattern...

from mcdenis

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 pattern...