Frank Trentmann
Author of Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
About the Author
Frank Trentmann is a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and directed the 5 million Cultures of Consumption research program. His last book, Free Trade Nation, won the Boyal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize. He was educated at Hamburg University, the London School of show more Economics and Political Science, and Harvard University. He has been the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, as well as a visiting professor at Bielefeld University, the University of St. Gallen, the British Academy, and the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Socialesin Paris, in 2014 he was awarded the Moore Distinguished Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. show less
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Works by Frank Trentmann
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (2016) 355 copies
Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture (Cultures of Consumption) (2009) — Editor — 12 copies
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