Frank Trentmann
Frank Trentmann is a professor of history in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. 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, University of London. He was educated at Hamburg University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and at Harvard University, where he completed his PhD. He has taught at Princeton University and at Bielefeld University. He was Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute.
Trentmann won the Whitfield Prize from the Royal Historical Society for his 2008 book Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain.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 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.Selected publications
- Empire of Things - How we became a world of consumers from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first.
- Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain.
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, editor.
- Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann and Richard Wilk, Time, Consumption, and Everyday Life.
- Is Free Trade Fair? New Perspectives on the World Trading System, editor.
- Food and Globalization: Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World, edited with Alexander Nützenadel,.
- Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics, edited with Mark Bevir,.
- Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, 1880–1950.
- Citizenship and Consumption, edited with Kate Soper,.
- Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges, edited with John Brewer,.
- 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, edited with Flemming Just,.
- 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, co-edited with Mark Bevir.
- Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges, co-edited with Mark Bevir.
- Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History,,.
