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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>> Recent publications Citizenship and Consumption, special issue for Journal of Consumer Culture Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1860-1950 ‘Caring Consumers’, in Britain 2007 ‘The Politics of Necessity’, special issue for Journal of Consumer Policy Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars ‘Consumption’, in Europe since 1914: Encyclopaedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction ‘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 ‘The ‘British’ Sources of Social Power: Reflections on History, Sociology, and Intellectual Biography’, in An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann Interview, Economic Sociology Civil Society: A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World ‘The Problem with Civil Society: Putting Modern European History Back into Contemporary Debate’, in Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts ‘Beyond Consumerism: New Historical Perspectives on Consumption’, in Journal of Contemporary History ‘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 ‘Rolf Gardiner’, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ‘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 ‘Fiscal Politics 1688-1939: Taxation, Free Trade, and Tariff Reform’ in Reader’s Guide to British History ‘Leisure and Recreation,’ in Reader’s Guide to British History Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges ‘National Identity and Consumer Politics: Free Trade and Tariff Reform’, in The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1914 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). Citizenship and Consumption, edited with Kate Soper, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited with Alexander Nützenadel, (2007). ‘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). 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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