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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers\, from t
 he Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
DESCRIPTION:In Empire of Things\, Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraord
 inary story of our modern material world\, from Renaissance I
 taly and late Ming China to today’s global economy. While 
 consumption is often portrayed as a recent American export\, 
 this monumental and richly detailed account shows that it is
 \, in fact\, a truly international phenomenon with a much long
 er and more diverse history. Trentmann traces the influenc
 e of trade and empire on tastes\, as formerly exotic goods li
 ke coffee\, tobacco\, Indian cotton\, and Chinese porcelain con
 quered the world\, and explores the growing demand for home f
 urnishings\, fashionable clothes\, and convenience that transf
 ormed private and public life. The nineteenth and twentieth 
 centuries brought department stores\, credit cards\, and adver
 tising\, but also the rise of the ethical shopper\, new genera
 tional identities\, and\, eventually\, the resurgence of the As
 ian consumer.
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