Frank Trentmann

Frank Trentmann' is professor of history in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Selected publications

• Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First, forthcoming with Allen Lane/Penguin in January 2016
• Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Whitfield Prize, Royal Historical Society.
• The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, editor (Oxford University Press, 2012).
• Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann and Richard Wilk (eds), Time, Consumption, and Everyday Life (Oxford: Berg, 2009).
• Is Free Trade Fair? New Perspectives on the World Trading System, editor (Smith Institute, London 2009).
• Food and Globalization: Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World, edited with Alexander Nützenadel, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2008).
• Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics, edited with Mark Bevir, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
• Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1860-1950, edited with Kevin Grant and Philippa Levine, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
• Citizenship and Consumption, edited with Kate Soper, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
• Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges, edited with John Brewer, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006).
• The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World (Editor), (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006).
• Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars, edited with Flemming Just, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
• Civil Society: A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics (edited with John A. Hall), (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
• Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (edited with Martin J Daunton), (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
• Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), co-edited with Mark Bevir (Chinese edition in press).
• Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges, co-edited with Mark Bevir (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
• Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History, (Editor), (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2003, 2nd rev. paperback edition. 1st edition 2000).

External links

• http://historyspot.org.uk/podcasts/global-history-external/consumption-culture-%E2%80%93-global-history