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Frank Trentmann is a professor of history in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at
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,
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. He is a specialist in the history of consumption.


Career

Trentmann is professor of history in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at
Birkbeck College Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London), is a public university, public research university, located in Bloomsbury, London, England, and a constituent college, member institution of the federal Universit ...
,
University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
.Professor Frank Trentmann.
Birkbeck College. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
He was educated at
Hamburg University The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...
, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and at
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
, where he completed his PhD. He has taught at
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
and at Bielefeld University. He was Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the
European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute and an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established by the member states to contribu ...
.Professor Frank Trentmann, Programme Director.
Cultures of Consumption, Birkbeck College. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
Trentmann won the Whitfield Prize from the
Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society, founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history. Origins The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the Histori ...
for his 2008 book ''Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain'' (Oxford University Press).


Research

Trentmann is a specialist in the history of consumption. He was director of the Cultures of Consumption research programme, which received £5 million of funding from the
Economic and Social Research Council The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), formerly the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) funded by the UK government. ESRC provides fundi ...
and the
Arts and Humanities Research Council The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), formerly Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), is a British research council, established in 1998, supporting research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities. History The Arts an ...
.Professor Frank Trentmann.
Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life, Birkbeck College. Retrieved 19 May 2015.


Selected publications

*''Empire of Things - How we became a world of consumers from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first'' (UK: Allen Lane/Penguin 2016; US: HarperCollins 2016; German edn: DVA 2017; Chinese: Ginkgo 2017). *''Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). *''The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption'', editor (Oxford University Press, 2012). *Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann and Richard Wilk (eds), ''Time, Consumption, and Everyday Life'' (Oxford: Berg, 2009). *''Is Free Trade Fair? New Perspectives on the World Trading System'', editor (Smith Institute, London 2009). *''Food and Globalization: Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World'', edited with Alexander Nützenadel, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2008). *''Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics'', edited with Mark Bevir, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). * (Co-edited with
Philippa Levine Philippa Judith Amanda Levine, FRAI, FRHistS, is a historian of the British Empire, gender, race, science and technology. She has spent most of her career in the United States and has been Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humaniti ...
and Kevin Grant) ''Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, 1880–1950'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). *''Citizenship and Consumption'', edited with Kate Soper, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). *''Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges'', edited with John Brewer, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006). *''The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World'' (Editor), (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006). *''Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars'', edited with Flemming Just, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). *''Civil Society: A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics'' (edited with John A. Hall), (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). *''Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' (edited with Martin J Daunton), (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). *''Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), co-edited with Mark Bevir (Chinese edition in press). *''Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges'', co-edited with Mark Bevir (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). *''Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History'', (Editor), (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2003, 2nd rev. paperback edition. 1st edition 2000).


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External links


Trentmann talking on The Consumption of Culture – a Global History.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Trentmann, Frank Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of Birkbeck, University of London Harvard University alumni 21st-century German historians Alumni of the London School of Economics University of Hamburg alumni Princeton University faculty Academic staff of Bielefeld University Academic staff of the European University Institute Fernand Braudel Fellows