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      Out of the Darkness

      Frank Trentmann

      A groundbreaking new history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today

      A groundbreaking new history of the people at the centre of…

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      Out of the Darkness

      Frank Trentmann

      A groundbreaking history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today

      In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people…

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      Out of the Darkness

      Frank Trentmann

      "A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from the Second World War to the present day, including hugely revealing new primary source material on every aspect of its…

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

      Frank Trentmann

      What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services…

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      Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History

      Representing an emerging generation of scholarship on the idea and historical development of civil society, this volume contains 15 contributions by North American and European historians that emerged from a…

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      Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History

      This collection of original papers offers an important comparative-historical dimension to the debate by examining the historical roots of civil society in Germany and Britain from the 17th century revolutions…

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      The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

      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 Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

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

      We constantly hear about ‘the consumer’. The ‘consumer’ has become a ubiquitous person in public discourse and academic research, but who is this person? This interdisciplinary study follows the evolution…

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

      The ‘consumer’ has become a ubiquitous person in public discourse and academic research, but who is this person? Offering a historically informed picture of the rise of the consumer to…

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      Infrastructures in Practice: The Dynamics of Demand in Networked Societies

      Infrastructures in practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other. Power grids, roads and broadband make modern lifestyles possible - at the same time, their design and day-to-day…

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      Infrastructures in Practice: The Dynamics of Demand in Networked Societies

      Infrastructures in practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other. Power grids, roads and broadband make modern lifestyles possible - at the same time, their design and day-to-day…

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      Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World

      This book presents a much-needed corrective to the model of the ‘free market’ which has come to dominate public and academic life. Leading historians, theorists and social scientists offer historically…

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      Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges

      Globalization and consumerism are two of the buzzwords of the early 21st century. This book looks at the genealogy of the modern consumer and the development of consumer cultures, from…

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      Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges

      Globalization and consumerism are two of the buzzwords of the early twenty-first century. This book explores the links between modernity and consumption. It draws on case studies from around the…

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      Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World

      This book presents a much-needed corrective to the model of the ‘free market’ which has come to dominate public and academic life. Leading historians, theorists and social scientists offer historically…

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      Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain

      Frank Trentmann (Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London)

      This book tells the story of Free Trade in modern Britain, its contribution to the development of Britain’s democratic culture, and its unravelling in the wake of the First World…

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

      Professor of History Frank Trentmann (University of California Berkeley)

      Empire of Things isn’t just an insightful and surprisingly entertaining read, but a crucial one. –NPR

      What we consume has become a central–perhaps the central–feature of modern life. Our economies…

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      Food and Globalization: Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World

      Food has a special significance in the expanding field of global history. This work provides an historical overview of the relationship between food and globalization in the modern world. It…

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      Food and Globalization: Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World

      Offers an overview of the relationship between food and globalization in the modern world. This book provides a perspective on both global history and food studies. It is intended for…

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      Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture

      Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and…

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      Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture

      Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and…

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      Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075

      Scarcity in the Modern World brings together world-renowned scholars in an open access book to examine how concerns about the scarcity of environmental resources such as water, food, energy and…

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      Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075

      Scarcity in the Modern World brings together world-renowned scholars in an open access book to examine how concerns about the scarcity of environmental resources such as water, food, energy and…

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