Frank Trentmann: Introduction; Part I: Traditions; 1 James Davidson: Citizen Consumers: The Athenian Democracy and the Origins of Western Consumption; 2 Craig Clunas: Things in Between: Splendour and Excess in Ming China; 3 Sara Pennell: Material Culture in Seventeenth-century 'Britain': the Matter of Domestic Consumption; 4 Jeremy Prestholdt: Africa and the Global Lives of Things; Part II: Dynamics and Diffusion; 5 Michelle Craig McDonald: Transatlantic Consumption; 6 Felipe Fernandez-Armesto with the assistance of Benjamin Sacks: The Global Exchange of Food and Drugs; 7 Prasannan Parthasarathi and Giorgio Riello: From India to the World: Cotton and Fashionability; Part III: Rich and Poor; 8 Maxine Berg: Luxury, the Luxury Trades, and the Roots of Industrial Growth: A Global Perspective; 9 Dominique Margairaz: City and Country: Home, Possessions, and Diet, Western Europe 1600-1800; 10 Carole Shammas: Standard of Living, Consumption, and Political Economy over the Past 500 Years; Part IV: Places of Consumption; 11 Evelyn Welch: Sites of Consumption in Early Modern Europe; 12 Brian Cowan: Public Spaces, Knowledge, and Sociability; 13 Heinz-Gerhard Haupt: Small Shops and Department Stores; Part V: Technologies and Practices; 14 Elizabeth Shove: Comfort and Convenience: Temporality and Practice; 15 David E. Nye: Consumption of Energy; 16 Joshua Goldstein: Waste; 17 Lendol Calder: Saving and Spending; 18 Alan Warde: Eating; Part VI: State and Civil Society; 19 Lawrence B. Glickman: Consumer Activism, Consumer Regimes, and the Consumer Movement: Rethinking the History of Consumer Politics in the United States; 20 Karl Gerth: Consumption and Nationalism: China; 21 S. Jonathan Wiesen: National Socialism and Consumption; 22 Sheila Fitzpatrick: Things under Socialism: the Soviet Experience; 23 Timothy Burke: Unexpected Subversions: Modern Colonialism, Globalization, and Commodity Culture; 24 Andrew Gordon: Consumption, Consumerism, and Japanese Modernity; 25 Matthew Hilton: Consumer movements; 26 Frank Trentmann: The Politics of Everyday Life; Part VII: Identities; 27 Mike Savage: Status, Lifestyle, and Taste; 28 Enrica Asquer: Domesticity and Beyond: Gender, Family, and Consumption in Modern Europe; 29 Daniel Thomas Cook: Children's Consumption in History; 30 Paolo Capuzzo: Youth and consumption; 31 Christopher Breward: Fashion; 32 Roberta Sassatelli: Self and Body; 33 Avner Offer: Consumption and Well-Being

The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal. The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and West? Did the twentieth century see the triumph of global consumerism? Questions of consumption have become defining topics in all branches of history, from gender and labour history to political history and cultural studies.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption offers a timely overview of how our understanding of consumption in history has changed in the last generation, taking the reader from the ancient period to the twenty-first century. It includes chapters on Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America, brings together new perspectives, highlights cutting-edge areas of research, and offers a guide through the main historiographical developments. Contributions from leading historians examine the spaces of consumption, consumer politics, luxury and waste, nationalism and empire, the body, well-being, youth cultures, and fashion.
The Handbook also showcases the different ways in which recent historians have approached the subject, from cultural and economic history to political history and technology studies, including areas where multidisciplinary approaches have been especially fruitful.

Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Professor of History and Social Sciences at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester.