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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trentmann, Frank.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Oxford handbooks

[Oxford handbooks]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics).

Consumers.

Consumer behavior.

Physical Description:

xvii, 695 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

History of consumption

Place of Publication:

Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 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.

Notes:

Series statement on jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780199561216

0199561214

OCLC:

730413908