The article reviews Frank Trentmann's The Empire of things. How we became a world of consumers, from the Fifteenth century to the Twenty-first. After having contextualised the book in the most recent historiographical trends, the paper focuses on its content, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of the author's main hypothesis.

Attraverso i secoli, oltre i confini: una storia dei consumi

Bruno Gaia
2019-01-01

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The article reviews Frank Trentmann's The Empire of things. How we became a world of consumers, from the Fifteenth century to the Twenty-first. After having contextualised the book in the most recent historiographical trends, the paper focuses on its content, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of the author's main hypothesis.
2019
30/2019
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