Frank Trentmann
Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London
Director of Cultures of Consumption Research Programme
Frank Trentmann's work has focused on consumption, civil society, and political culture. He directs the £ 5 million Cultures of Consumption research programme, co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). His recent publications include Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (Oxford and New York: Berg, in press, edited with John Brewer); The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006); Civil Society: A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, edited with John A. Hall); Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World (Cambridge, 2004, edited with Mark Bevir).
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Biography link (Cultures of Consumption)