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What we consume is just about the defining feature of the lives: our economies live or perish by spending, we live cared for more as consumers than staff and even general public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. Within this monumental analysis, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the astonishing history that has molded our materials world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy and the Uk Empire for this. Astonishingly wide ranging and richly complete, Empire of Things explores how we have come to live with a lot more, how this evolved the course of history and the global issues we face because of this. Frank Trentmann is a professor of history at Birkbeck School, School of London, and aimed the £5 million Cultures of Usage research program. His last e book, Free Trade Nation, triumphed in the Whitfield Reward for remarkable historical scholarship and success from the Royal Historical Population. He was educated at Hamburg School, the LSE and Harvard, where he received his PhD. In 2014 he was Moore Distinguished Fellow at Caltech.