historical trajectories, transnational exchanges Brewer, John creator editor Brewer, John 1947- Trentmann, Frank text bibliography enk 2006 monographic eng

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x, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Introduction : space, time and value in consuming cultures / John Brewer and Frank Trentmann -- The modern genealogy of the consumer : meanings, identities and political synapses / Frank Trentmann -- Brand management and the productivity of consumption / Adam Arvidsson -- On the movement of porcelains : rethinking the birth of consumer society as interactions of exchange networks, 1600-1750 / Robert Batchelor -- Consumer culture and extractive industry on the margins of the world system / Richard Wilk -- "Flowers of paradise" or "Polluting the nation"? Contested narratives of Khat consumption / David M. Anderson and Neil Carrier -- Chewing gum : mass consumption and the 'shadow-lands' of the Yucatan / Michael R. Redclift -- Japan's post war "consumer revolution", or striking a "balance" between consumption and saving / Sheldon Garon -- Virtue, responsibility and consumer choice : framing critical consumerism / Roberta Sassatelli -- Negotiations with the American way : the consumer and the social contract in post-war Europe / Sheryl Kroen -- Emerging global water welfarism : access to water, unruly consumers and transnational governance / Bronwen Morgan. edited by John Brewer and Frank Trentmann Includes bibliographical references and index Consumption (Economics) Social aspects Culture Economic aspects Material culture 306.3 1845202465 (hardback) 1845202473 (pbk.) 9781845202460 (hardback) 9781845202477 (pbk.) 2006009547 060320 20181127182954.0 7132