Frank Trentmann

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Frank Trentmann (born July 18, 1965 ) is a German historian . He is a professor of history at Birkbeck College of the University of London . His research focus is the history of consumption .

Life

Frank Trentmann graduated from high school in Altona in 1984 , then studied medicine and history at the University of Hamburg , earned a bachelor's degree from the London School of Economics and a master's degree from Harvard University , where he also received a Ph.D. PhD. Trentmann taught at Princeton University , Bielefeld University and was Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute .

In 2014 he was a Moore Distinguished Fellow at the California Institute of Technology .

In 2017 he received the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation .

For his book Free Trade Nation , published in 2008, he received the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society and his book The rule of things. The history of consumption from the 15th century to the present day was named Science Book of the Year in the category "Humanities / Social / Cultural Studies" in 2018 .

Publications

As a writer

  • Free Trade Nation. Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-920920-0 .
  • Empire of Things. How we became a world of consumers from the fifteenth century to the twenty first . Allen Lane, London 2016, ISBN 978-0-7139-9962-4 .
    • Rule of things. The history of consumption from the 15th century to today . Translated from the English by Klaus-Dieter Schmidt and Stephan Gebauer-Lippert. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2017. ISBN 978-3-421-04273-6 .

As editor and co-editor

  • Paradoxes of Civil Society. New Perspectives on Modern German and British History . Berghahn, Oxford 2000, ISBN 1-57181-142-7 .
  • The Making of the Consumer. Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World . Berg, Oxford 2006, ISBN 1-84520-248-1 .
  • Is Free Trade Fair? New Perspectives on the World Trading System . Smith Institute, London 2009, ISBN 1-905370-43-1 .
  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-956121-6 .

As co-editor

  • with Mark Bevir: Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America. Transatlantic Exchanges . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2002, ISBN 0-333-98081-6 .
  • with Mark Bevir: Markets in Historical Contexts. Ideas and Politics in the Modern World . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 0-521-83355-8 .
  • with Martin J. Daunton: Worlds of Political Economy. Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2004, ISBN 1-403-93218-2 .
  • with John A. Hall: Civil Society. A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2005, ISBN 1-403-91542-3 .
  • with Flemming Just: Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2006, ISBN 1-403-98684-3 .
  • with John Brewer: Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives. Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges . Berg, Oxford 2006, ISBN 1-84520-246-5 .
  • with Mark Bevir: Governance, Citizens, and Consumers. Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2007, ISBN 978-1-349-35503-7 .
  • with Kevin Grant and Philippa Levine: Beyond Sovereignty. Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1860-1950 . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2007, ISBN 978-1-349-54089-1 .
  • with Kate Soper: Citizenship and Consumption . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2007, ISBN 978-1-349-60086-1 .
  • with Alexander Nützenadel: Food and Globalization. Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World . Berg, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-1-84520-678-9 .
  • with Elizabeth Shove and Richard Wilk: Time, Consumption, and Everyday Life. Practice, materiality and culture . Berg, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-1-84788-364-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professor Frank Trentmann - curriculum vitae. (DOC) Department of History, Classics and Archeology, Birkbeck, University of London, accessed on May 24, 2017 .
  2. ^ Professor Frank Trentmann, Program Director.
  3. ↑ thersa.org
  4. ↑ referentenagentur-bertelsmann.de
personal data
SURNAME Trentmann, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1965