The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption
The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal. The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and West? Did the twentieth century see the triumph of global consumerism? Questions of consumption have become defining topics in all branches of history, from gender and labour history to political history and cultural studies. 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, taking the reader from the ancient period to the twenty-first century. It includes chapters on Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America, brings together new perspectives, highlights cutting-edge areas of research, and offers a guide through the main historiographical developments. Contributions from leading historians examine the spaces of consumption, consumer politics, luxury and waste, nationalism and empire, the body, well-being, youth cultures, and fashion. The Handbook also showcases the different ways in which recent historians have approached the subject, from cultural and economic history to political history and technology studies, including areas where multidisciplinary approaches have been especially fruitful.
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption
The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal. The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and West? Did the twentieth century see the triumph of global consumerism? Questions of consumption have become defining topics in all branches of history, from gender and labour history to political history and cultural studies. 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, taking the reader from the ancient period to the twenty-first century. It includes chapters on Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America, brings together new perspectives, highlights cutting-edge areas of research, and offers a guide through the main historiographical developments. Contributions from leading historians examine the spaces of consumption, consumer politics, luxury and waste, nationalism and empire, the body, well-being, youth cultures, and fashion. The Handbook also showcases the different ways in which recent historians have approached the subject, from cultural and economic history to political history and technology studies, including areas where multidisciplinary approaches have been especially fruitful.
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

by Frank Trentmann (Editor)
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

by Frank Trentmann (Editor)

Overview

The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal. The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and West? Did the twentieth century see the triumph of global consumerism? Questions of consumption have become defining topics in all branches of history, from gender and labour history to political history and cultural studies. 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, taking the reader from the ancient period to the twenty-first century. It includes chapters on Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America, brings together new perspectives, highlights cutting-edge areas of research, and offers a guide through the main historiographical developments. Contributions from leading historians examine the spaces of consumption, consumer politics, luxury and waste, nationalism and empire, the body, well-being, youth cultures, and fashion. The Handbook also showcases the different ways in which recent historians have approached the subject, from cultural and economic history to political history and technology studies, including areas where multidisciplinary approaches have been especially fruitful.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191624353
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 03/22/2012
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Professor of History and Social Sciences at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
1. Introduction, Frank Trentmann

Part I: TRADITIONS
2. Citizen Consumers: The Athenian Democracy and the Origins of Western Consumption, James Davidson
3. Things in Between: Splendour and Excess in Ming China, Craig Clunas
4. Material Culture in Seventeenth-Century 'Britain': The Matter of Domestic Consumption, Sara Pennell
5. Africa and the Global Lives of Things,

Part II: DYNAMICS AND DIFFUSION
6. Transatlantic Consumption, Michelle Craig McDonald
7. The Global Exchange of Food and Drugs, Felipe Fernández-Armesto with the assistance of Benjamin Sacks
8. From India to the World: Cotton and Fashionability, Prasannan Parthasarathi and Giorgio Riello

PART III: RICH AND POOR
9. Luxury, the Luxury Trades and the Roots of Industrial Growth: A Global Perspective, Maxine Berg
10. City and Country: Home, Possessions, and Diet, Western Europe 1600-1800, Dominique Margairaz
11. Standard of Living, Consumption and Political Economy over the Past 500 Years, Carole Shammas

Part IV: PLACES OF CONSUMPTION
12. Sites of Consumption in Early Modern Europe, Evelyn Welch
13. Public Spaces, Knowledge, and Sociability, Brian Cowan
14. Small Shops and Department Stores, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

Part V: TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES
15. Comfort and convenience: Temporality and Practice, Elizabeth Shove
16. Consumption of Energy, David E. Nye
17. Waste, Joshua Goldstein
18. Saving and Spending, Lendol Calder
19. Eating, Alan Warde

PART VI: STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY
20. Consumer Activism, Consumer Regimes, and the Consumer Movement: Rethinking the History of Consumer Politics in the United States, Lawrence B. Glickman
21. Consumption and Nationalism: China, Karl Gerth
22. National Socialism and Consumption, S. Jonathan Wiesen
23. Things under Socialism: the Soviet Experience, Sheila Fitzpatrick
24. Unexpected Subversions: Modern Colonialism, Globalization and Commodity Culture, Timothy Burke
25. Consumption, Consumerism, and Japanese Modernity, Andrew Gordon
26. Consumer movements, Matthew Hilton
27. The Politics of Everyday Life, Frank Trentmann

PART VII: IDENTITIES
28. Status, Lifestyle and Taste, Mike Savage
29. Domesticity and Beyond: Gender, Family, and Consumption in Modern Europe, Enrica Asquer
30. Children's Consumption in History, Daniel Thomas Cook
31. Youth and consumption, Paolo Capuzzo
32. Fashion, Christopher Breward
33. Self and Body, Roberta Sassatelli
34. Consumption and Well-Being, Avner Offer
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