Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Publisher: HarperCollins; HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: Ebook
Number of pages: 862
ISBN-13: 9780062456328
Table of contents: label: Dedication; label: List of Illustrations; label: List of Figures; label: Introduction; label: Part One; label: 1
title: Three Cultures of Consumption; label: 2
title: The Enlightenment of Consumption; label: 3
title: Imperium of Things; label: 4
title: Cities; label: 5
title: The Consumer Revolution Comes Home; label: 6
title: Age of Ideologies; label: 7
title: Inside Affluence; label: 8
title: Asia Consumes; label: Part Two; label: Preface; label: 9
title: Buy Now, Pay Later; label: 10
title: Not So Fast; label: 11
title: From the Cradle to the Grave; label: 12
title: Outside the Marketplace; label: 13
title: Home and Away; label: 14
title: Matters of the Spirit; label: 15
title: Throwaway Society?; label: Epilogue; label: Acknowledgements; label: Notes; label: Index; label: Illustrations; label: About the Author; label: Credits; label: Copyright; label: About the Publisher