The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 March 2012
- ISBN 9780199561216
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages720 pages
- Size 246x171 mm
- Weight 1392 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 black and white images 0
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Short description:
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.
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The study of the desire, acquisition, use, and disposal of goods and services, consumption, has grown enormously in recent years, and 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.
Constructing a handbook that can do any sort of justice to such a broad spectrum of ideas, practices and debates is a major achievement. Frank Trentmann is thus to be applauded for producing such a wide-ranging and useful book ... offers such an exciting and informative journey through the world of consumption.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Traditions
Citizen Consumers: The Athenian Democracy and the Origins of Western Consumption
Things in Between: Splendour and Excess in Ming China
Material Culture in Seventeenth-century 'Britain': the Matter of Domestic Consumption
Africa and the Global Lives of Things
Part II: Dynamics and Diffusion
Transatlantic Consumption
The Global Exchange of Food and Drugs
From India to the World: Cotton and Fashionability
Part III: Rich and Poor
Luxury, the Luxury Trades, and the Roots of Industrial Growth: A Global Perspective
City and Country: Home, Possessions, and Diet, Western Europe 1600-1800
Standard of Living, Consumption, and Political Economy over the Past 500 Years
Part IV: Places of Consumption
Sites of Consumption in Early Modern Europe
Public Spaces, Knowledge, and Sociability
Small Shops and Department Stores
Part V: Technologies and Practices
Comfort and Convenience: Temporality and Practice
Consumption of Energy
Waste
Saving and Spending
Eating
Part VI: State and Civil Society
Consumer Activism, Consumer Regimes, and the Consumer Movement: Rethinking the History of Consumer Politics in the United States
Consumption and Nationalism: China
National Socialism and Consumption
Things under Socialism: the Soviet Experience
Unexpected Subversions: Modern Colonialism, Globalization, and Commodity Culture
Consumption, Consumerism, and Japanese Modernity
Consumer movements
The Politics of Everyday Life
Part VII: Identities
Status, Lifestyle, and Taste
Domesticity and Beyond: Gender, Family, and Consumption in Modern Europe
Children's Consumption in History
Youth and consumption
Fashion
Self and Body
Consumption and Well-Being
