Empire of things : how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first /
"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 s...
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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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