Empire of Things 9780241198407

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First 9780241198407, 0062456342, 9780062456342

What we consume has become a central—perhaps the central—feature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending,

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The Infinite Double: Persons: Things/Empire: Economy 9789382396208

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Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things 9780674425415

Anders Engberg-Pedersen shows how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge in the West. Soldiers return

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The Life of Things, the Love of Things 9780823264452

From prehistoric stone tools to machines to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changin

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Couple of Things

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The Things Things Say 9781400840083

One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by thin

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The Internet of Things 9780262328920

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The Internet of Things 9780262328920

We turn on the lights in our house from a desk in an office miles away. Our refrigerator alerts us to buy milk on the wa

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How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and its terra sigillata Pottery 9789048529933

Van Oyen offers a fresh analysis in which objects are no longer passive props, but rather they actively shape historical

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Empire of Silver 9780007285426

The Great Khan is dead—and his vast empire, forged through raw courage, tactical brilliance, and indomitable force, hang

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