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Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Empire of Things isn't just an insightful and surprisingly entertaining read, but a crucial one.NPR What we consume has become a centralperhaps the centralfeature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly define ourselves by our possessions, and this ever-richer lifestyle has had an extraordinary impact on our planet. How have we come to live with so much stuff, and how has this changed the course of history? Read more