The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption
Edited by Frank Trentmann
Author Information
Frank Trentmann was educated at Hamburg University, the London School of Economics, and Harvard University. Before joining Birkbeck, he was Assistant Professor at Princeton University. He has also been the director of the Cultures of Consumption research programme, co-funded by the ESRC and the AHRC, Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, and a visiting professor at Bielefeld University (Germany) and at the British Academy. His recent publications include Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society, and Commerce in Modern Britain (Oxford, 2008), which was awarded the Whitfield Prize by the Royal Historical Society.
Contributors:
Enrica Asquer, the University of Sassari, Italy
Maxine Berg, Professor of History, University of Warwick
Christopher Breward, Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Timothy Burke, Professor of History, Swarthmore College
Lendol Calder, Professor of American History, Augustana College, Illinois
Paolo Capuzzo, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Bologna
Craig Clunas, Professor of the History of Art, the University of Oxford
Daniel Thomas Cook, Associate Professor of Childhood Studies and Sociology, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey
Brian Cowan, Canada Research Chair in Early Modern British History, McGill University, Montreal
James Davidson, Professor of Ancient History, University of Warwick.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, William P. Reynolds Professor of Arts and Letters, Notre Dame
Sheila Fitzpatrick, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Russian History, University of Chicago
Dr Karl Gerth, Oxford University
Lawrence B. Glickman, Carolina Trustee Professor of History, University of South Carolina
Joshua Goldstein, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Southern California
Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Professor of European History, the University of Bielefeld and the European University Institute, Florence
Matthew Hilton, Professor of Social History, University of Birmingham
Dominique Jeanne Margairaz, Professor of Modern History, Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonnedepuis
Michelle Craig McDonald, associate professor of Early American and Atlantic history, Richard Stockton College
David E. Nye, Professor of American Studies, University of Southern Denmark
Avner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford
Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston College
Sara Pennell, senior lecturer in history, Roehampton University, London
Jeremy Prestholdt, Associate Professor of African History, University of California, San Diego
Giorgio Riello, Associate Professor in Global History and Culture, University of Warwick
Roberta Sassatelli, Professor of Cultural Sociology, University of Milan
Mike Savage, Professor of Sociology, University of York
Elizabeth Shove, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University
Carole Shammas holds the John R. Hubbard Chair in History, University of Southern California
Frank Trentmann, Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London
Alan Warde, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester, and Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Evelyn Welch, Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary University of London
S. Jonathan Wiesen, Associate Professor of History, Southern Illinois University Carbondale