Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (Cultures of Consumption Series)

by JohnBrewer (Editor), Frank Trentmann (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $197.22

  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 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.

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $40.61

  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 world, with Africa, Asia and Central America. It presents accounts of globalization and consumerism.