Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Professor of History and Social Sciences at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester.

Constructing a handbook that can do any sort of justice to such a broad spectrum of ideas, practices and debates is a major achievement. Frank Trentmann is thus to be applauded for producing such a wide-ranging and useful book ... offers such an exciting and informative journey through the world of consumption.

• PART I: TRADITIONS; PART II: DYNAMICS AND DIFFUSION; PART III: RICH AND POOR; PART IV: PLACES OF CONSUMPTION; PART V: TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES; PART VI: STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY; PART VII: IDENTITIES

Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Professor of History and Social Sciences at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester.

Constructing a handbook that can do any sort of justice to such a broad spectrum of ideas, practices and debates is a major achievement. Frank Trentmann is thus to be applauded for producing such a wide-ranging and useful book ... offers such an exciting and informative journey through the world of consumption.

• PART I: TRADITIONS; PART II: DYNAMICS AND DIFFUSION; PART III: RICH AND POOR; PART IV: PLACES OF CONSUMPTION; PART V: TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES; PART VI: STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY; PART VII: IDENTITIES

Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Professor of History and Social Sciences at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester.

Constructing a handbook that can do any sort of justice to such a broad spectrum of ideas, practices and debates is a major achievement. Frank Trentmann is thus to be applauded for producing such a wide-ranging and useful book ... offers such an exciting and informative journey through the world of consumption.

• PART I: TRADITIONS; PART II: DYNAMICS AND DIFFUSION; PART III: RICH AND POOR; PART IV: PLACES OF CONSUMPTION; PART V: TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES; PART VI: STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY; PART VII: IDENTITIES