Putting a girdle ‘round the globe
The transatlantic cables built in the mid-19th century shrank time and space.
Frank Trentmann
A History of Consumer Culture
The notion that ‘Greed is Good’ was not born in the 1980s, nor even in the 20th century. Frank Trentmann traces the roots of today’s rampant consumer culture to the imperial ambitions of the great European powers.