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.

• 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 Fernández-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

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.