| Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges Contributor(s): Brewer, John (Editor), Trentmann, Frank (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1845202473 ISBN-13: 9781845202477 Publisher: Berg Publishers OUR PRICE: $46.48 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: Drawing on case studies from around the world, a trans-national perspective allows the authors to look at the genealogy of the modern consumer and the development of consumer cultures, from the porcelain trade and consumption in Britain and China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to post Second World War developments in America and Japan, and the contemporary consumer politics of cosmopolitan citizenship.
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Modern - 21st Century - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306.3 |
| LCCN: 2006009547 |
| Series: Cultures of Consumption (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.04" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Globalization and consumerism are two of the buzzwords of the early twenty-first century. In Consuming Cultures, renowned scholars explore the links between modernity and consumption. The book fills a gap in contemporary thinking on the subject by approaching it from a truly global point-of-view. It draws on case studies from around the world, with Africa, Asia and Central America featuring as prominently as Western countries. A transnational perspective allows the authors to investigate the diversity of consumer cultures and the interaction between them. The authors look at the genealogy of the modern consumer and the development of consumer cultures, from the porcelain trade and consumption in Britain and China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to post Second World War developments in America and Japan, and the contemporary consumer politics of cosmopolitan citizenship. Challenging and pioneering, Consuming Cultures problematizes popular accounts of globalization and consumerism, decentring the West and concentrating on putting history back into these accounts. |
Contributor Bio(s): Trentmann, Frank: - FRANK TRENTMANN is Professor of Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Recent publications include Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives, edited with John Brewer (2006) and Civil Society: A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics, edited with John A. Hall (2005). Brewer, John: - John Brewer is Professor of History and Literature at the California Institute of Technology. |