Too Much of a Good Thing? Consumption, Consumerism, and Consumer Cooperation in Modern History

Abstract

A review essay on books by 1) Frank Trentmann, Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (2016); & 2) Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, Greg Patmore, A Global History of Global Consumer Cooperation Since 1850: Movements and Businesses (2017).