The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World

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 Economics and Political Science, and Harvard show more 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