John Brewer Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Consuming Cultures, Global PerspectivesCondition: NewSubtitle: Historical Trajectories, Transnational ExchangesISBN-10: 1845202473EAN: 9781845202477ISBN: 9781845202477Publisher: Berg PublishersFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/01/2006Description: Globalization and consumerism are two of the buzzwords of the early twenty-first century. In Consuming Cultures, renowned scholars explore the links between modernity and consumption. The book fills a gap in contemporary thinking on the subject by approaching it from a truly global point-of-view. It draws on case studies from around the world, with Africa, Asia and Central America featuring as prominently as Western countries. A transnational perspective allows the authors to investigate the diversity of consumer cultures and the interaction between them. The authors look at the genealogy of the modern consumer and the development of consumer cultures, from the porcelain trade and consumption in Britain and China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to post Second World War developments in America and Japan, and the contemporary consumer politics of cosmopolitan citizenship. Challenging and pioneering, Consuming Cultures problematizes popular accounts of globalization and consumerism, decentring the West and concentrating on putting history back into these accounts.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 19mmContributor: John Brewer (Edited by), Frank Trentmann (Edited by)Author: John BrewerGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Cultures of Consumption SeriesRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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