The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

Herausgeber: Trentmann, Frank

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption offers a timely overview of how our understanding of consumption in history has changed in the last generation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 184mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1393g
• ISBN-13: 9780199561216
• ISBN-10: 0199561214
• Artikelnr.: 33722983

Autorenporträt

Frank Trentmann was educated at Hamburg University, the London School of Economics, and Harvard University. Before joining Birkbeck, he was Assistant Professor at Princeton University. He has also been the director of the Cultures of Consumption research programme, co-funded by the ESRC and the AHRC, Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, and a visiting professor at Bielefeld University (Germany) and at the British Academy. His recent publications include Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society, and Commerce in Modern Britain (Oxford, 2008), which was awarded the Whitfield Prize by the Royal Historical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Traditions
* 1: James Davidson: Citizen Consumers: The Athenian Democracy and the
Origins of Western Consumption
* 2: Craig Clunas: Things in Between: Splendour and Excess in Ming
China
* 3: Sara Pennell: Material Culture in Seventeenth-century 'Britain':
the Matter of Domestic Consumption
* 4: Jeremy Prestholdt: Africa and the Global Lives of Things
* Part II: Dynamics and Diffusion
* 5: Michelle Craig McDonald: Transatlantic Consumption
* 6: Felipe Fernández-Armesto with the assistance of Benjamin Sacks:
The Global Exchange of Food and Drugs
* 7: Prasannan Parthasarathi and Giorgio Riello: From India to the
World: Cotton and Fashionability
* Part III: Rich and Poor
* 8: Maxine Berg: Luxury, the Luxury Trades, and the Roots of
Industrial Growth: A Global Perspective
* 9: Dominique Margairaz: City and Country: Home, Possessions, and
Diet, Western Europe 1600-1800
* 10: Carole Shammas: Standard of Living, Consumption, and Political
Economy over the Past 500 Years
* Part IV: Places of Consumption
* 11: Evelyn Welch: Sites of Consumption in Early Modern Europe
* 12: Brian Cowan: Public Spaces, Knowledge, and Sociability
* 13: Heinz-Gerhard Haupt: Small Shops and Department Stores
* Part V: Technologies and Practices
* 14: Elizabeth Shove: Comfort and Convenience: Temporality and
Practice
* 15: David E. Nye: Consumption of Energy
* 16: Joshua Goldstein: Waste
* 17: Lendol Calder: Saving and Spending
* 18: Alan Warde: Eating
* Part VI: State and Civil Society
* 19: Lawrence B. Glickman: Consumer Activism, Consumer Regimes, and
the Consumer Movement: Rethinking the History of Consumer Politics in
the United States
* 20: Karl Gerth: Consumption and Nationalism: China
* 21: S. Jonathan Wiesen: National Socialism and Consumption
* 22: Sheila Fitzpatrick: Things under Socialism: the Soviet Experience
* 23: Timothy Burke: Unexpected Subversions: Modern Colonialism,
Globalization, and Commodity Culture
* 24: Andrew Gordon: Consumption, Consumerism, and Japanese Modernity
* 25: Matthew Hilton: Consumer movements
* 26: Frank Trentmann: The Politics of Everyday Life
* Part VII: Identities
* 27: Mike Savage: Status, Lifestyle, and Taste
* 28: Enrica Asquer: Domesticity and Beyond: Gender, Family, and
Consumption in Modern Europe
* 29: Daniel Thomas Cook: Children's Consumption in History
* 30: Paolo Capuzzo: Youth and consumption
* 31: Christopher Breward: Fashion
* 32: Roberta Sassatelli: Self and Body
* 33: Avner Offer: Consumption and Well-Being