-Empire of Things isn't just an insightful and surprisingly entertaining read, but a crucial one.
---NPR What we consume has become a central--perhaps the central--feature of modern life.
Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly define ourselves by our possessions, and this ever-richer lifestyle has had an extraordinary impact on our planet.
How have we come to live with so much stuff, and how has this ch.
Harper Empire of things: how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first, hardcover/frank trentmann
