The Oxford handbook of the history of consumption / History of consumption edited by Frank Trentmann. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. - xvii, 695 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Citizen consumers : the Athenian democracy and the origins of Western consumption / James Davidson -- Things in between : splendour and excess in Ming China / Craig Clunas -- Material culture in seventeenth-century 'Britain' : the matter of domestic consumption / Sara Pennell -- Africa and the global lives of things / Jeremy Prestholdt -- Transatlantic consumption / Michelle Craig McDonald -- The global exchange of food and drugs / Filipe Fernández-Armesto and Benjamin Sacks -- From India to the world : cotton and fashionability / Prasannan Parthasarathi and Giorgio Riello -- Luxury, the luxury trades and the roots of industrial growth : a global perspective / Maxine Berg -- City and country : home, possessions, and diet, Western Europe 1600-1800 / Dominique Margairaz -- Standard of living, consumption, and political economy over the past 500 years / Carole Shammas -- Sites of consumption in early modern Europe / Evelyn Welch -- Public spaces, knowledge, and sociability / Brian Cowan -- Small shops and department stores / Heinz-Gerhard Haupt -- Comfort and convenience : temporality and practice / Elizabeth Shove -- Consumption of energy / David E. Nye -- Waste / Joshua Goldstein -- Saving and spending / Lendol Calder -- Eating / Alan Warde -- Consumer activism, consumer regimes, and the consumer movement : rethinking the history of consumer politics in the United States / Lawrence B. Glickman -- Consumption and nationalism : China / Karl Gerth -- National socialism and consumption / S. Jonathan Wiesen -- Things under socialism : the Soviet experience / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Unexpected subversions : modern colonialism, globalization, and commodity culture / Timothy Burke -- Consumption, consumerism, and Japanese modernity / Andrew Gordon -- Consumer movements / Matthew Hilton -- The politics of everyday life / Frank Trentmann -- Status, lifestyle, and taste / Mike Savage -- Domesticity and beyond : gender, family, and consumption in modern Europe / Enrica Asquer -- Children's consumption in history / Daniel Thomas Cook -- Youth and consumption / Paolo Capuzzo -- Fashion / Christopher Breward -- Self and body / Roberta Sassatelli -- Consumption and well-being / Avner Offer.

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Consumption (Economics)
Consumers.
Consumer behavior.

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