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frank trentmann

Professor Frank Trentmann,
Programme Director

 

phone: 020 7079 0603
email: esrcConsumepd@bbk.ac.uk


Prof. Frank Trentmann is director of the Cultures of Consumption research programme. He is a Professor of History in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, in the University of London. He was educated at Hamburg University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and at Harvard University, where he received his PhD. He has also taught at Princeton University (USA) and at Bielefeld University (Germany).

Frank Trentmann's work has focused on citizenship and consumption, civil society, and political culture.

Recent and forthcoming publications are listed below. For more details, see Professor Trentmann's CV>>


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Recent publications

Citizenship and Consumption, special issue for Journal of Consumer Culture
Vol. 7(2) (2007).

Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1860-1950
edited with Kevin Grant and Philippa Levine, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 
‘Introduction’, with Kevin Grant and Philippa Levine, pp. 1-15.
‘After the Nation-State: Citizenship, Empire and Global Coordination in the New Internationalism, 1914-1930’, pp. 34-53.

‘Caring Consumers’, in Britain 2007
(ESRC publications, March 2007). view pdf >>

‘The Politics of Necessity’, special issue for Journal of Consumer Policy
Vol. 29(4) (2006), edited with Bronwen Morgan.

Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges
edited with John Brewer, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006).
‘Introduction: Space, Time, and Value in Consuming Cultures’, with John Brewer, pp. 1-17.
‘The Modern Genealogy of the Consumer: Meanings, Knowledge, and Identities’, pp. 19-69.

The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World
(Editor), (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006).
‘Knowing Consumers – Histories, Identities, Practices’, pp. 1-27.
‘From Users to Consumers: Water Politics in Nineteenth-Century London’, with Vanessa Taylor, pp. 53-79. For a version of this as a paper click here >>

Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars
edited with Flemming Just, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
‘Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars’ (with F. Just), pp. 1-12;
‘Coping with Shortage: The Problem of Food Security and Global Visions of Coordination, c. 1890s-1950’, pp. 13-48.

‘Consumption’, in Europe since 1914: Encyclopaedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction
edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter (Detroit: Charles Scribners Sons, 2006), volume 2, pp. 704-717; 8,000 words.

‘The Resurrection and Decomposition of Cobden in Britain and the West: An Essay in the Politics of Reputation’, in Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays
eds. Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 264-288.

‘The ‘British’ Sources of Social Power: Reflections on History, Sociology, and Intellectual Biography’, in An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann
eds. John A. Hall and Ralph Schroeder (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 285-305.

Interview, Economic Sociology
Vol. 7(2) (Feb. 2006)

Civil Society: A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics
(edited with John A. Hall), (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
‘Contests over Civil Society: Introductory Perspectives’, with John Hall, pp. 1-21.

Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(edited with Martin J Daunton), (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
‘Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge, Practices and Contestation’, with Martin Daunton, pp. 1-23.

Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), co-edited with Mark Bevir.
‘Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas, Practices and Governance, with Mark Bevir, pp. 1-24.
‘Civilising Markets:  Traditions of Consumer Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain, Japan, and the United States’, with Patricia Maclachlan, pp. 170-201.

‘The Problem with Civil Society: Putting Modern European History Back into Contemporary Debate’, in Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts
eds. Marlies Glasius, David Lewis, and Hakan Seckinelgin, (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 26-35.

‘Beyond Consumerism: New Historical Perspectives on Consumption’, in Journal of Contemporary History
Vol. 39(3) (2004), pp. 373-401. Reprinted in Consumer Behaviour I: Research and Influences, ed. Margaret Hogg, (London: Sage, 2005), pp. 303-329. Subscribers can access PDF of journal article via link above. To see version as a working paper click here>>

‘Vergangenheit, Zukunft, und die Inszenierung von Wirklichkeiten: Politische Ökonomie und Politische Kommunikation in Grossbritannien zu Beginn des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts’, in: Wirtschaftsgeschichte als Kulturgeschichte: Dimensionen eines Perspektivenwechsels
eds. Hartmut Berghoff and Jakob Vogel, (Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2004), pp. 405-34. [‘Past, Future, and the Presentation of Realities: Political Economy and Political Communication in early twentieth century Britain’].

‘Rolf Gardiner’, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), Vol. 21, pp. 427-29.

‘E.M.H. Lloyd’, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), Vol. 34, pp. 119-121.

Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History
(Editor), (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2003). New second revised paperback edition.  First edition (2000). 
‘Paradoxes of Civil Society’, pp. 3-46.
‘Civil Society, Commerce, and the “Citizen-Consumer”: Popular Meanings of Free Trade in Modern Britain’, pp. 306-331.
Reprinted in Czech as ‘Paradoxy Občanské Společnosti’, in Sociální Studia (Social Studies Journal), Issue 1 (2005), pp. 15-46.

‘Fiscal Politics 1688-1939: Taxation, Free Trade, and Tariff Reform’ in  Reader’s Guide to British History
2 vols., (London and New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003), Vol. 1, pp. 523-29.

‘Leisure and Recreation,’ in Reader’s Guide to British History
(London and New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003), Vol. 1, pp.798-802. 

Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges
co-edited with Mark Bevir (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
‘Critique within Capitalism: Historiographical Problems, Theoretical Perspectives’, with Mark Bevir, pp. 1-25.

‘National Identity and Consumer Politics: Free Trade and Tariff Reform’, in The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1914
eds. Patrick O’Brien and Donald Winch (a collection of essays for the centenary of the British Academy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 215-242.


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Forthcoming Publications:

The Consuming Passion: How Things Came to Seduce, Enrich and Define Our Lives, from the Eighteenth Century to the Twenty-First (Penguin).

Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Commerce, and Civil Society in Modern Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (in press).

‘Before “Fair Trade”: Empire, Free Trade, and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern World’, in Environment and Planning D (in press). 

Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics, edited with Mark Bevir, (Palgrave Macmillan, in press). 
‘Consumption and Citizenship in the New Governance’, with Mark Bevir.
‘The Circulation of Rationalities: Consumption, Identity, and Citizenship’, with Mark Bevir.

Citizenship and Consumption, edited with Kate Soper, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
‘Civic Choices: Retrieving Perspectives on Rationality, Consumption, and Citizenship’, with Mark Bevir. View version as working paper >>         

Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited with Alexander Nützenadel, (2007). 
‘Before “Fair Trade”: Empire, Free Trade, and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern World’.

‘Consumption and Global History’, for special issue of Journal of Consumer Culture (2008).

‘Identities and Practices: New Perspectives on Consumption’, for special issue of Journal of British Studies (2008). 

‘Konsum and transnationale Geschichte’, in Unterwegs in Europa – Beiträge zu einer pluralen europäischen Geschichte, eds. Christina Benninghaus, Sven Oliver Müller, Jörg Requate and Charlotte Tacke (Campus Verlag: 2008).


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Current Projects

Water and consumer politics in modern Britain with Vanessa Taylor.  Liquid Politics: The Historic Formation of the Water Consumer charts the formation of the politically self-conscious water consumer in Britain in the modern period. In the nineteenth century, political debates over the rights and responsibilities of water consumers came to the fore at a time of changing modes of access to water, changing habits of water consumption and intermittent failures of supply. In 1880s and ’90s London, ‘the consumer’ was for the first time mobilised as a distinct group in battles between water users, ratepayers and water companies. The project compares this consumer with water users in three other settings: nineteenth-century municipal water supply; the aftermath of London’s municipalisation in 1902; and recent conflicts over water quality, pricing and ‘scarcity’. For further information: www.consume.bbk.ac.uk/projects/liquidpolitics.html

 

 

 

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