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The Oxford handbook of the history of consumption edited by Frank Trentmann.

Contributor(s): Trentmann, FrankMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Oxford handbooks in historyPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. Description: illContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: ISBN: 0191744093Other title: History of consumptionSubject(s): Consumption (Economics) -- HistoryAdditional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 339.4/709 LOC classification: HC79.C6 | .O84 2012
Contents:
Citizen consumers : the Athenian democracy and the origins of Western consumption / James Davidson -- Things in between : splendour and excess in Ming China / Craig Clunas -- Material culture in seventeenth-century 'Britain' : the matter of domestic consumption / Sara Pennell -- Africa and the global lives of things / Jeremy Prestholdt -- Transatlantic consumption / Michelle Craig McDonald -- The global exchange of food and drugs / Filipe Fernández-Armesto and Benjamin Sacks -- From India to the world : cotton and fashionability / Prasannan Parthasarathi and Giorgio Riello -- Luxury, the luxury trades and the roots of industrial growth : a global perspective / Maxine Berg -- City and country : home, possessions, and diet, Western Europe 1600-1800 / Dominique Margairaz -- Standard of living, consumption, and political economy over the past 500 years / Carole Shammas -- Sites of consumption in early modern Europe / Evelyn Welch -- Public spaces, knowledge, and sociability / Brian Cowan -- Small shops and department stores / Heinz-Gerhard Haupt -- Comfort and convenience : temporality and practice / Elizabeth Shove -- Consumption of energy / David E. Nye -- Waste / Joshua Goldstein -- Saving and spending / Lendol Calder -- Eating / Alan Warde -- Consumer activism, consumer regimes, and the consumer movement : rethinking the history of consumer politics in the United States / Lawrence B. Glickman -- Consumption and nationalism : China / Karl Gerth -- National socialism and consumption / S. Jonathan Wiesen -- Things under socialism : the Soviet experience / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Unexpected subversions : modern colonialism, globalization, and commodity culture / Timothy Burke -- Consumption, consumerism, and Japanese modernity / Andrew Gordon -- Consumer movements / Matthew Hilton -- The politics of everyday life / Frank Trentmann -- Status, lifestyle, and taste / Mike Savage -- Domesticity and beyond : gender, family, and consumption in modern Europe / Enrica Asquer -- Children's consumption in history / Daniel Thomas Cook -- Youth and consumption / Paolo Capuzzo -- Fashion / Christopher Breward -- Self and body / Roberta Sassatelli -- Consumption and well-being / Avner Offer.
Summary: '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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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Citizen consumers : the Athenian democracy and the origins of Western consumption / James Davidson -- Things in between : splendour and excess in Ming China / Craig Clunas -- Material culture in seventeenth-century 'Britain' : the matter of domestic consumption / Sara Pennell -- Africa and the global lives of things / Jeremy Prestholdt -- Transatlantic consumption / Michelle Craig McDonald -- The global exchange of food and drugs / Filipe Fernández-Armesto and Benjamin Sacks -- From India to the world : cotton and fashionability / Prasannan Parthasarathi and Giorgio Riello -- Luxury, the luxury trades and the roots of industrial growth : a global perspective / Maxine Berg -- City and country : home, possessions, and diet, Western Europe 1600-1800 / Dominique Margairaz -- Standard of living, consumption, and political economy over the past 500 years / Carole Shammas -- Sites of consumption in early modern Europe / Evelyn Welch -- Public spaces, knowledge, and sociability / Brian Cowan -- Small shops and department stores / Heinz-Gerhard Haupt -- Comfort and convenience : temporality and practice / Elizabeth Shove -- Consumption of energy / David E. Nye -- Waste / Joshua Goldstein -- Saving and spending / Lendol Calder -- Eating / Alan Warde -- Consumer activism, consumer regimes, and the consumer movement : rethinking the history of consumer politics in the United States / Lawrence B. Glickman -- Consumption and nationalism : China / Karl Gerth -- National socialism and consumption / S. Jonathan Wiesen -- Things under socialism : the Soviet experience / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Unexpected subversions : modern colonialism, globalization, and commodity culture / Timothy Burke -- Consumption, consumerism, and Japanese modernity / Andrew Gordon -- Consumer movements / Matthew Hilton -- The politics of everyday life / Frank Trentmann -- Status, lifestyle, and taste / Mike Savage -- Domesticity and beyond : gender, family, and consumption in modern Europe / Enrica Asquer -- Children's consumption in history / Daniel Thomas Cook -- Youth and consumption / Paolo Capuzzo -- Fashion / Christopher Breward -- Self and body / Roberta Sassatelli -- Consumption and well-being / Avner Offer.

'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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