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In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our material world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy and the British Empire to the present. Astonishingly wide-ranging and richly detailed, Empire of Things explores how we have come to live with so much more, how this changed the course of history, and the global challenges we face as a result.

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 02/02/2017
    ISBN13: 9780141028743, 978-0141028743
    ISBN10: 0141028742

    Number of Pages: 912

    Non Fiction , Business, Finance & Law

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    In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our material world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy and the British Empire to the present. Astonishingly wide-ranging and richly detailed, Empire of Things explores how we have come to live with so much more, how this changed the course of history, and the global challenges we face as a result.

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