Empire of Things : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141028743 : : 06 Feb 2017 : ‘Magnificent ...groundbreaking ...a triumph’ Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads ‘A masterpiece, a delight to read ...a rare and beautiful thing’ Gerard DeGroot, The Times What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that...