List of Illustrations .......................................... xi
Notes on Contributors ........................................ xiii
l Introduction ................................................. l
Frank Trentmann
Part I traditions
2 Citizen Consumers: The Athenian Democracy and the
Origins of Western Consumption .............................. 23
James Davidson
3 Things in Between: Splendour and Excess in Ming China ....... 47
Craig Clunas
4 Material Culture in Seventeenth-Century 'Britain':
The Matter of Domestic Consumption .......................... 64
Sara Pennell
5 Africa and the Global Lives of Things ....................... 85
Jeremy Prestholdt
Part II dynamics and diffusion
6 Transatlantic Consumption .................................. 111
Michelle Craig McDonald
7 The Global Exchange of Food and Drugs ...................... 127
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and Benjamin Sacks
8 From India to the World: Cotton and Fashionability ......... 145
Prasannan Parthasarathi and Giorgio Riello
Part III rich and poor
9 Luxury, the Luxury Trades, and the Roots of Industrial
Growth: A Global Perspective ............................... 173
Maxine Berg
10 City and Country: Home, Possessions, and Diet, Western
Europe 1600-1800 ........................................... 192
Dominique Margairaz
11 Standard of Living, Consumption, and Political Economy
over the Past 500 Years .................................... 211
Carole Shammas
Part IV places of consumption
12 Sites of Consumption in Early Modern Europe ................ 229
Evelyn Welch
13 Public Spaces, Knowledge, and Sociability .................. 251
Brian Cowan
14 Small Shops and Department Stores .......................... 267
Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
Part V technologies and practices
15 Comfort and Convenience: Temporality and Practice ......... 289
Elizabeth Shove
16 Consumption of Energy ...................................... 307
David E. Nye
17 Waste ...................................................... 326
Joshua Goldstein
18 Saving and Spending ........................................ 348
Lendol Calder
19 Eating ..................................................... 376
Alan Warde
Part VI state and civil society
20 Consumer Activism, Consumer Regimes, and the Consumer
Movement: Rethinking the History of Consumer Politics in
the United States .......................................... 399
Lawrence B. Glickman
21 Consumption and Nationalism: China ......................... 418
Karl Gerth
22 National Socialism and Consumption ......................... 433
S. Jonathan Wiesen
23 Things under Socialism: The Soviet Experience .............. 451
Sheila Fitzpatrick
24 Unexpected Subversions: Modern Colonialism, Globalization,
and Commodity Culture ...................................... 467
Timothy Burke
25 Consumption, Consumerism, and Japanese Modernity ........... 485
Andrew Gordon
26 Consumer movements ......................................... 505
Matthew Hilton
27 The Politics of Everyday Life .............................. 521
Frank Trentmann
Part VII identities
28 Status, Lifestyle, and Taste ............................... 551
Mike Savage
29 Domesticity and Beyond: Gender, Family, and Consumption
in Modern Europe ........................................... 568
Enrica Asquer
30 Children's Consumption in History .......................... 585
Daniel Thomas Cook
31 Youth and Consumption ...................................... 601
Paolo Capuzzo
32 Fashion .................................................... 618
Christopher Breward
33 Self and Body .............................................. 633
Roberta Sassatelli
34 Consumption and Well-being ................................. 653
Avner Offer
Index ......................................................... 673
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