内容简介

The study of the desire, acquisition, use, and disposal of goods and services, consumption, has grown enormously in recent years, and has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and West? Did the twentieth century see the triumph of global consumerism? Questions of consumption have become defining topics in all branches of history, from gender and labour history to political history and cultural studies. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption offers a timely overview of how our understanding of consumption in history has changed in the last generation, taking the reader from the ancient period to the twenty-first century. It includes chapters on Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America, brings together new perspectives, highlights cutting-edge areas of research, and offers a guide through the main historiographical developments. Contributions from leading historians examine the spaces of consumption, consumer politics, luxury and waste, nationalism and empire, the body, well-being, youth cultures and fashion. The Handbook also showcases the different ways in which recent historians have approached the subject, from cultural and economic history, to political history and technology studies, including areas where multidisciplinary approaches have been especially fruitful.

作品目录

Introduction, Frank Trentmann
Part I: Traditions
1: Citizen Consumers: The Athenian Democracy and the Origins of Western Consumption, James Davidson
2: Things in Between: Splendour and Excess in Ming China, Craig Clunas
3: Material Culture in Seventeenth-century 'Britain': the Matter of Domestic Consumption, Sara Pennell
4: Africa and the Global Lives of Things, Jeremy Prestholdt
Part II: Dynamics and Diffusion
5: Transatlantic Consumption, Michelle Craig McDonald
6: The Global Exchange of Food and Drugs, Felipe Fernández-Armesto with the assistance of Benjamin Sacks
7: From India to the World: Cotton and Fashionability, Prasannan Parthasarathi and Giorgio Riello
Part III: Rich and Poor
8: Luxury, the Luxury Trades, and the Roots of Industrial Growth: A Global Perspective, Maxine Berg
9: City and Country: Home, Possessions, and Diet, Western Europe 1600-1800, Dominique Margairaz
10: Standard of Living, Consumption, and Political Economy over the Past 500 Years, Carole Shammas
Part IV: Places of Consumption
11: Sites of Consumption in Early Modern Europe, Evelyn Welch
12: Public Spaces, Knowledge, and Sociability, Brian Cowan
13: Small Shops and Department Stores, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
Part V: Technologies and Practices
14: Comfort and Convenience: Temporality and Practice, Elizabeth Shove
15: Consumption of Energy, David E. Nye
16: Waste, Joshua Goldstein
17: Saving and Spending, Lendol Calder
18: Eating, Alan Warde
Part VI: State and Civil Society
19: Consumer Activism, Consumer Regimes, and the Consumer Movement: Rethinking the History of Consumer Politics in the United States, Lawrence B. Glickman
20: Consumption and Nationalism: China, Karl Gerth
21: National Socialism and Consumption, S. Jonathan Wiesen
22: Things under Socialism: the Soviet Experience, Sheila Fitzpatrick
23: Unexpected Subversions: Modern Colonialism, Globalization, and Commodity Culture, Timothy Burke
24: Consumption, Consumerism, and Japanese Modernity, Andrew Gordon
25: Consumer movements, Matthew Hilton
26: The Politics of Everyday Life, Frank Trentmann
Part VII: Identities
27: Status, Lifestyle, and Taste, Mike Savage
28: Domesticity and Beyond: Gender, Family, and Consumption in Modern Europe, Enrica Asquer
29: Children's Consumption in History, Daniel Thomas Cook
30: Youth and consumption, Paolo Capuzzo
31: Fashion, Christopher Breward
32: Self and Body, Roberta Sassatelli
33: Consumption and Well-Being, Avner Offer
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作者简介

Frank Trentmann

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.