Podcast appearances and mentions of Frank Trentmann

In the latest episode of our monthly podcast series, regular panellists Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter are joined by Frank Trentmann to discuss the historical parallels behind recent developments in the global trade war – plus the tumultuous history of papal elections, and the surprising connection between Katy Perry and Alexander the Great. Hear more from Frank Trentmann on the history of tariffs: https://link.chtbl.com/3is-MbBu The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Trade wars and tariffs have once again been making headlines in recent weeks, as US president Donald Trump's government adopts combative economic policies. But are such approaches really that unusual? Speaking to Matt Elton, Frank Trentmann looks back at centuries of economic warfare – and reveals the historical factors that have sparked it. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Heartland's Tim Benson is joined by Frank Trentmann, professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, to discuss his latest book, Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942–2022. They chat about how a nation whose past has been marked by mass murder, a people who cheered Adolf Hitler, reinvented themselves, and by how much. Get the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554959/out-of-the-darkness-by-frank-trentmann/Show Notes:Literary Review: David Blackbourn – “A Mercedes in Every Garage”https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-mercedes-in-every-garageNew York Review of Books: Timothy Garton Ash – “Big Germany, What Now?”https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/big-germany-what-now-timothy-garton-ash/The New Statesman: Brendan Simms – “What it means to be German”https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2023/12/meaning-modern-germany-brenadan-simmsThe Times: Oliver Moody – “Out of the Darkness by Frank Trentmann review — how Germans became good (and rather complacent)”https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/out-of-the-darkness-by-frank-trentmann-review-9rc5n8kbd?region=globalTimes Literary Supplement: Ben Hutchinson – “New moral order”https://www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twentieth-century-onwards-history/after-the-nazis-michael-h-kater-out-of-the-darkness-frank-trentmann-book-review-ben-hutchinsonThe Wall Street Journal: Ian Brunskill – “‘Out of the Darkness' Review: War Crimes and Remembrance”https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/out-of-the-darkness-review-war-crimes-and-remembrance-0b830556The Washington Post: Bryn Stole – “An ambitious history of Germany interrogates the country's moral makeover”https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/04/18/out-darkness-germans-nazis-legacy-frank-trentmann-review/

Heartland's Tim Benson is joined by Frank Trentmann, professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, to discuss his latest book, Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942–2022. They chat about how a nation whose past has been marked by mass murder, a people who cheered Adolf Hitler, reinvented themselves, and by how much. Get the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554959/out-of-the-darkness-by-frank-trentmann/Show Notes:Literary Review: David Blackbourn – “A Mercedes in Every Garage”https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-mercedes-in-every-garageNew York Review of Books: Timothy Garton Ash – “Big Germany, What Now?”https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/big-germany-what-now-timothy-garton-ash/The New Statesman: Brendan Simms – “What it means to be German”https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2023/12/meaning-modern-germany-brenadan-simmsThe Times: Oliver Moody – “Out of the Darkness by Frank Trentmann review — how Germans became good (and rather complacent)”https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/out-of-the-darkness-by-frank-trentmann-review-9rc5n8kbd?region=globalTimes Literary Supplement: Ben Hutchinson – “New moral order”https://www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twentieth-century-onwards-history/after-the-nazis-michael-h-kater-out-of-the-darkness-frank-trentmann-book-review-ben-hutchinsonThe Wall Street Journal: Ian Brunskill – “‘Out of the Darkness' Review: War Crimes and Remembrance”https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/out-of-the-darkness-review-war-crimes-and-remembrance-0b830556The Washington Post: Bryn Stole – “An ambitious history of Germany interrogates the country's moral makeover”https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/04/18/out-darkness-germans-nazis-legacy-frank-trentmann-review/

Frank Trentmann's Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 (Knopf, 2024) traces the moral concerns and clashes of a nation re-building, re-constituting, and re-imagining itself from the depths of World War II to Chancellor Scholz's Zeitenwende (‘new era'). Key elements of modern German identity, including the memory of the Holocaust, the nature of the Sozialstaat, the tensions between an energy-intensive export nation and a deep-rooted environmental consciousness, and the legacy of the East-West divide are explored through the contemporary experiences of a range of voices and the detailed tracing of trends and events over 80 years. Trentmann invites us to look closer at Germany's postwar moral landscape and figures through the lens of ‘conscience, compassion and complicity', the better to understand Europe's most consequential nation. Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an associate at the Centre for Consumer Society Research, Helsinki. Matt Fraser is a freelance writer and podcaster based in Berlin, Germany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Frank Trentmann's Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 (Knopf, 2024) traces the moral concerns and clashes of a nation re-building, re-constituting, and re-imagining itself from the depths of World War II to Chancellor Scholz's Zeitenwende (‘new era'). Key elements of modern German identity, including the memory of the Holocaust, the nature of the Sozialstaat, the tensions between an energy-intensive export nation and a deep-rooted environmental consciousness, and the legacy of the East-West divide are explored through the contemporary experiences of a range of voices and the detailed tracing of trends and events over 80 years. Trentmann invites us to look closer at Germany's postwar moral landscape and figures through the lens of ‘conscience, compassion and complicity', the better to understand Europe's most consequential nation. Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an associate at the Centre for Consumer Society Research, Helsinki. Matt Fraser is a freelance writer and podcaster based in Berlin, Germany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Frank Trentmann's Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 (Knopf, 2024) traces the moral concerns and clashes of a nation re-building, re-constituting, and re-imagining itself from the depths of World War II to Chancellor Scholz's Zeitenwende (‘new era'). Key elements of modern German identity, including the memory of the Holocaust, the nature of the Sozialstaat, the tensions between an energy-intensive export nation and a deep-rooted environmental consciousness, and the legacy of the East-West divide are explored through the contemporary experiences of a range of voices and the detailed tracing of trends and events over 80 years. Trentmann invites us to look closer at Germany's postwar moral landscape and figures through the lens of ‘conscience, compassion and complicity', the better to understand Europe's most consequential nation. Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an associate at the Centre for Consumer Society Research, Helsinki. Matt Fraser is a freelance writer and podcaster based in Berlin, Germany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies

Frank Trentmann's Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 (Knopf, 2024) traces the moral concerns and clashes of a nation re-building, re-constituting, and re-imagining itself from the depths of World War II to Chancellor Scholz's Zeitenwende (‘new era'). Key elements of modern German identity, including the memory of the Holocaust, the nature of the Sozialstaat, the tensions between an energy-intensive export nation and a deep-rooted environmental consciousness, and the legacy of the East-West divide are explored through the contemporary experiences of a range of voices and the detailed tracing of trends and events over 80 years. Trentmann invites us to look closer at Germany's postwar moral landscape and figures through the lens of ‘conscience, compassion and complicity', the better to understand Europe's most consequential nation. Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an associate at the Centre for Consumer Society Research, Helsinki. Matt Fraser is a freelance writer and podcaster based in Berlin, Germany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

Frank Trentmann's Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 (Knopf, 2024) traces the moral concerns and clashes of a nation re-building, re-constituting, and re-imagining itself from the depths of World War II to Chancellor Scholz's Zeitenwende (‘new era'). Key elements of modern German identity, including the memory of the Holocaust, the nature of the Sozialstaat, the tensions between an energy-intensive export nation and a deep-rooted environmental consciousness, and the legacy of the East-West divide are explored through the contemporary experiences of a range of voices and the detailed tracing of trends and events over 80 years. Trentmann invites us to look closer at Germany's postwar moral landscape and figures through the lens of ‘conscience, compassion and complicity', the better to understand Europe's most consequential nation. Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an associate at the Centre for Consumer Society Research, Helsinki. Matt Fraser is a freelance writer and podcaster based in Berlin, Germany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frank Trentmann's Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 (Knopf, 2024) traces the moral concerns and clashes of a nation re-building, re-constituting, and re-imagining itself from the depths of World War II to Chancellor Scholz's Zeitenwende (‘new era'). Key elements of modern German identity, including the memory of the Holocaust, the nature of the Sozialstaat, the tensions between an energy-intensive export nation and a deep-rooted environmental consciousness, and the legacy of the East-West divide are explored through the contemporary experiences of a range of voices and the detailed tracing of trends and events over 80 years. Trentmann invites us to look closer at Germany's postwar moral landscape and figures through the lens of ‘conscience, compassion and complicity', the better to understand Europe's most consequential nation. Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an associate at the Centre for Consumer Society Research, Helsinki. Matt Fraser is a freelance writer and podcaster based in Berlin, Germany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

Frank Trentmann's Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 (Knopf, 2024) traces the moral concerns and clashes of a nation re-building, re-constituting, and re-imagining itself from the depths of World War II to Chancellor Scholz's Zeitenwende (‘new era'). Key elements of modern German identity, including the memory of the Holocaust, the nature of the Sozialstaat, the tensions between an energy-intensive export nation and a deep-rooted environmental consciousness, and the legacy of the East-West divide are explored through the contemporary experiences of a range of voices and the detailed tracing of trends and events over 80 years. Trentmann invites us to look closer at Germany's postwar moral landscape and figures through the lens of ‘conscience, compassion and complicity', the better to understand Europe's most consequential nation. Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an associate at the Centre for Consumer Society Research, Helsinki. Matt Fraser is a freelance writer and podcaster based in Berlin, Germany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1945, Germany lay in ruins – both physically and morally. Nearly 80 years after the Second World War, it has since been transformed into an economic powerhouse and a leader on the world stage. Historian Frank Trentmann discusses this remarkable journey with Danny Bird, exploring Germany's Cold War division, guilt over its Nazi past, the nation's deep-rooted approach to environmental matters, and the evolving political landscape since Reunification. (Ad) Frank Trentmann is the author of Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 (Allen Lane, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Darkness-1942-2022-Frank-Trentmann/dp/0241303494/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty. Listen to Daniel Cowling on Germany in the immediate aftermath of WW2 here: https://link.chtbl.com/Zn-AW5OQ. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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“The bridge between Out of the Darkness and my previous work, which looked at the transformation of consumer culture in the world, is morality. One thing that became clear in writing Empire of Things was that there's virtually no time or place in history where consumption isn't heavily moralized. Our lifestyle is treated as a mirror of our virtue and sins. And in the course of modern history, there's been a remarkable moral shift in the way that consumption used to be seen as something that led you astray or undermined authority, status, gender roles, and wasted money, to a source of growth, a source of self, fashioning the way we create our own identity. In the last few years, the environmental crisis has led to new questions about whether consumption is good or bad. And in 2015, during the refugee crisis when Germany took in almost a million refugees, morality became a very powerful way in which Germans talked about themselves as humanitarian world champions, as one politician called it. I realized that there's many other topics from family, work, to saving the environment, and of course, with regard to the German responsibility for the Holocaust and the war of extermination where German public discourse is heavily moralistic, so I became interested in charting that historical process."What can we learn from Germany's postwar transformation to help us address today's environmental and humanitarian crises? With the rise of populism, authoritarianism, and digital propaganda, how can history provide insights into the challenges of modern democracy?Frank Trentmann is a Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and at the University of Helsinki. He is a prize-winning historian, having received awards such as the Whitfield Prize, Austrian Wissenschaftsbuch/Science Book Prize, Humboldt Prize for Research, and the 2023 Bochum Historians' Award. He has also been named a Moore Scholar at Caltech. He is the author of Empire of Things and Free Trade Nation. His latest book is Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022, which explores Germany's transformation after the Second World War.www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8009279/frank-trentmannwww.penguin.co.uk/authors/32274/frank-trentmann?tab=penguin-bookswww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

"Consumption is a tricky business. We've moved ourselves into a situation where on the one hand, we now recognize that possessions are an important source of identity. Most of us believe people should have the right to choose the kind of lifestyle they want to have; on the other hand, we have the environmental costs of that lifestyle, which is causing havoc with our planet and, ultimately, with our lives. And so we're caught in a social-political acceptance of the freedom to choose and a growing awareness that the world is heading towards environmental disaster and taking us down with it. We haven't found a way of resolving that ambivalence. Climate activists, economists, and so forth have come up with solutions from zero growth to simple living, but as a historian who's followed the rise of and transformation of consumption over 600 years, I can assure you that it's too simple to try and demonize consumption and hope that by just drawing attention to environmental problems, people will somehow reform themselves. I think we have to take seriously that in the course of modernity, consumption has become deeply embedded culturally, socially, politically in our lives.Just waving an alarmist poster will not shock us out of the kind of lifestyle that has become normal for us. People tend to equate consumption with individual choice and motivation or desire. But from an environmental point of view, a huge amount of our hyper-consumption lifestyle is not organized or conducted through individual choice. They're social habits. These days, people have a shower as a matter of habit. Some people have two or three showers a day. And then they get to their leisure activities or their work with a car if they have one. They're used to driving, and that's a habit. So lots of things that cause damage are habitual forms of consumption. Those are not driven by individual choice but because our cities have been planned in a particular way—state and other authorities have built highways, car manufacturers get certain subsidies. There's an infrastructure of gas stations and electric charging points. And so if you want to tackle environmental consequences, perhaps a more effective way would be to intervene, try to disrupt those habits and plan cities and mobility in different ways that are environmentally friendlier."Frank Trentmann is a Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and at the University of Helsinki. He is a prize-winning historian, having received awards such as the Whitfield Prize, Austrian Wissenschaftsbuch/Science Book Prize, Humboldt Prize for Research, and the 2023 Bochum Historians' Award. He has also been named a Moore Scholar at Caltech. He is the author of Empire of Things and Free Trade Nation. His latest book is Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022, which explores Germany's transformation after the Second World War.www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8009279/frank-trentmannwww.penguin.co.uk/authors/32274/frank-trentmann?tab=penguin-bookswww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London · Author of Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022 The environmental crisis, Gaza, the war in Ukraine—all of those don't make sense if you don't have a sense of history. History and the humanities have come under huge pressure. We've seen falling student numbers, and that's a real shame because history continues to be a source of intellectual inspiration and curiosity that not only makes us wiser and more reflective but also creates the dynamism and creativity we need to confront our present and future challenges. I hope that among the young generations, there will be people inspired by history, people that have the ambition to research and write about the past.

"Consumption is a tricky business. We've moved ourselves into a situation where on the one hand, we now recognize that possessions are an important source of identity. Most of us believe people should have the right to choose the kind of lifestyle they want to have; on the other hand, we have the environmental costs of that lifestyle, which is causing havoc with our planet and, ultimately, with our lives. And so we're caught in a social-political acceptance of the freedom to choose and a growing awareness that the world is heading towards environmental disaster and taking us down with it. We haven't found a way of resolving that ambivalence. Climate activists, economists, and so forth have come up with solutions from zero growth to simple living, but as a historian who's followed the rise of and transformation of consumption over 600 years, I can assure you that it's too simple to try and demonize consumption and hope that by just drawing attention to environmental problems, people will somehow reform themselves. I think we have to take seriously that in the course of modernity, consumption has become deeply embedded culturally, socially, politically in our lives.Just waving an alarmist poster will not shock us out of the kind of lifestyle that has become normal for us. People tend to equate consumption with individual choice and motivation or desire. But from an environmental point of view, a huge amount of our hyper-consumption lifestyle is not organized or conducted through individual choice. They're social habits. These days, people have a shower as a matter of habit. Some people have two or three showers a day. And then they get to their leisure activities or their work with a car if they have one. They're used to driving, and that's a habit. So lots of things that cause damage are habitual forms of consumption. Those are not driven by individual choice but because our cities have been planned in a particular way—state and other authorities have built highways, car manufacturers get certain subsidies. There's an infrastructure of gas stations and electric charging points. And so if you want to tackle environmental consequences, perhaps a more effective way would be to intervene, try to disrupt those habits and plan cities and mobility in different ways that are environmentally friendlier."Frank Trentmann is a Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and at the University of Helsinki. He is a prize-winning historian, having received awards such as the Whitfield Prize, Austrian Wissenschaftsbuch/Science Book Prize, Humboldt Prize for Research, and the 2023 Bochum Historians' Award. He has also been named a Moore Scholar at Caltech. He is the author of Empire of Things and Free Trade Nation. His latest book is Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022, which explores Germany's transformation after the Second World War.www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8009279/frank-trentmannwww.penguin.co.uk/authors/32274/frank-trentmann?tab=penguin-bookswww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London · Author of Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022 The environmental crisis, Gaza, the war in Ukraine—all of those don't make sense if you don't have a sense of history. History and the humanities have come under huge pressure. We've seen falling student numbers, and that's a real shame because history continues to be a source of intellectual inspiration and curiosity that not only makes us wiser and more reflective but also creates the dynamism and creativity we need to confront our present and future challenges. I hope that among the young generations, there will be people inspired by history, people that have the ambition to research and write about the past.

Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London · Author of Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022 The environmental crisis, Gaza, the war in Ukraine—all of those don't make sense if you don't have a sense of history. History and the humanities have come under huge pressure. We've seen falling student numbers, and that's a real shame because history continues to be a source of intellectual inspiration and curiosity that not only makes us wiser and more reflective but also creates the dynamism and creativity we need to confront our present and future challenges. I hope that among the young generations, there will be people inspired by history, people that have the ambition to research and write about the past.

Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London · Author of Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022 The environmental crisis, Gaza, the war in Ukraine—all of those don't make sense if you don't have a sense of history. History and the humanities have come under huge pressure. We've seen falling student numbers, and that's a real shame because history continues to be a source of intellectual inspiration and curiosity that not only makes us wiser and more reflective but also creates the dynamism and creativity we need to confront our present and future challenges. I hope that among the young generations, there will be people inspired by history, people that have the ambition to research and write about the past.

What can we learn from Germany's postwar transformation to help us address today's environmental and humanitarian crises? With the rise of populism, authoritarianism, and digital propaganda, how can history provide insights into the challenges of modern democracy?Frank Trentmann is a Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and at the University of Helsinki. He is a prize-winning historian, having received awards such as the Whitfield Prize, Austrian Wissenschaftsbuch/Science Book Prize, Humboldt Prize for Research, and the 2023 Bochum Historians' Award. He has also been named a Moore Scholar at Caltech. He is the author of Empire of Things and Free Trade Nation. His latest book is Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022, which explores Germany's transformation after the Second World War.“The bridge between Out of the Darkness and my previous work, which looked at the transformation of consumer culture in the world, is morality. One thing that became clear in writing Empire of Things was that there's virtually no time or place in history where consumption isn't heavily moralized. Our lifestyle is treated as a mirror of our virtue and sins. And in the course of modern history, there's been a remarkable moral shift in the way that consumption used to be seen as something that led you astray or undermined authority, status, gender roles, and wasted money, to a source of growth, a source of self, fashioning the way we create our own identity. In the last few years, the environmental crisis has led to new questions about whether consumption is good or bad. And in 2015, during the refugee crisis when Germany took in almost a million refugees, morality became a very powerful way in which Germans talked about themselves as humanitarian world champions, as one politician called it. I realized that there's many other topics from family, work, to saving the environment, and of course, with regard to the German responsibility for the Holocaust and the war of extermination where German public discourse is heavily moralistic, so I became interested in charting that historical process."www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8009279/frank-trentmannwww.penguin.co.uk/authors/32274/frank-trentmann?tab=penguin-bookswww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastPhoto credit: Jon Wilson

What can we learn from Germany's postwar transformation to help us address today's environmental and humanitarian crises? With the rise of populism, authoritarianism, and digital propaganda, how can history provide insights into the challenges of modern democracy?Frank Trentmann is a Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and at the University of Helsinki. He is a prize-winning historian, having received awards such as the Whitfield Prize, Austrian Wissenschaftsbuch/Science Book Prize, Humboldt Prize for Research, and the 2023 Bochum Historians' Award. He has also been named a Moore Scholar at Caltech. He is the author of Empire of Things and Free Trade Nation. His latest book is Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022, which explores Germany's transformation after the Second World War.“The bridge between Out of the Darkness and my previous work, which looked at the transformation of consumer culture in the world, is morality. One thing that became clear in writing Empire of Things was that there's virtually no time or place in history where consumption isn't heavily moralized. Our lifestyle is treated as a mirror of our virtue and sins. And in the course of modern history, there's been a remarkable moral shift in the way that consumption used to be seen as something that led you astray or undermined authority, status, gender roles, and wasted money, to a source of growth, a source of self, fashioning the way we create our own identity. In the last few years, the environmental crisis has led to new questions about whether consumption is good or bad. And in 2015, during the refugee crisis when Germany took in almost a million refugees, morality became a very powerful way in which Germans talked about themselves as humanitarian world champions, as one politician called it. I realized that there's many other topics from family, work, to saving the environment, and of course, with regard to the German responsibility for the Holocaust and the war of extermination where German public discourse is heavily moralistic, so I became interested in charting that historical process."www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8009279/frank-trentmannwww.penguin.co.uk/authors/32274/frank-trentmann?tab=penguin-bookswww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastPhoto credit: Jon Wilson

Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London · Author of Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022 The environmental crisis, Gaza, the war in Ukraine—all of those don't make sense if you don't have a sense of history. History and the humanities have come under huge pressure. We've seen falling student numbers, and that's a real shame because history continues to be a source of intellectual inspiration and curiosity that not only makes us wiser and more reflective but also creates the dynamism and creativity we need to confront our present and future challenges. I hope that among the young generations, there will be people inspired by history, people that have the ambition to research and write about the past.

What can we learn from Germany's postwar transformation to help us address today's environmental and humanitarian crises? With the rise of populism, authoritarianism, and digital propaganda, how can history provide insights into the challenges of modern democracy?Frank Trentmann is a Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and at the University of Helsinki. He is a prize-winning historian, having received awards such as the Whitfield Prize, Austrian Wissenschaftsbuch/Science Book Prize, Humboldt Prize for Research, and the 2023 Bochum Historians' Award. He has also been named a Moore Scholar at Caltech. He is the author of Empire of Things and Free Trade Nation. His latest book is Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022, which explores Germany's transformation after the Second World War.“The bridge between Out of the Darkness and my previous work, which looked at the transformation of consumer culture in the world, is morality. One thing that became clear in writing Empire of Things was that there's virtually no time or place in history where consumption isn't heavily moralized. Our lifestyle is treated as a mirror of our virtue and sins. And in the course of modern history, there's been a remarkable moral shift in the way that consumption used to be seen as something that led you astray or undermined authority, status, gender roles, and wasted money, to a source of growth, a source of self, fashioning the way we create our own identity. In the last few years, the environmental crisis has led to new questions about whether consumption is good or bad. And in 2015, during the refugee crisis when Germany took in almost a million refugees, morality became a very powerful way in which Germans talked about themselves as humanitarian world champions, as one politician called it. I realized that there's many other topics from family, work, to saving the environment, and of course, with regard to the German responsibility for the Holocaust and the war of extermination where German public discourse is heavily moralistic, so I became interested in charting that historical process."www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8009279/frank-trentmannwww.penguin.co.uk/authors/32274/frank-trentmann?tab=penguin-bookswww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastPhoto credit: Jon Wilson

Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London · Author of Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022 The environmental crisis, Gaza, the war in Ukraine—all of those don't make sense if you don't have a sense of history. History and the humanities have come under huge pressure. We've seen falling student numbers, and that's a real shame because history continues to be a source of intellectual inspiration and curiosity that not only makes us wiser and more reflective but also creates the dynamism and creativity we need to confront our present and future challenges. I hope that among the young generations, there will be people inspired by history, people that have the ambition to research and write about the past.

Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London · Author of Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022 The environmental crisis, Gaza, the war in Ukraine—all of those don't make sense if you don't have a sense of history. History and the humanities have come under huge pressure. We've seen falling student numbers, and that's a real shame because history continues to be a source of intellectual inspiration and curiosity that not only makes us wiser and more reflective but also creates the dynamism and creativity we need to confront our present and future challenges. I hope that among the young generations, there will be people inspired by history, people that have the ambition to research and write about the past.

“The bridge between Out of the Darkness and my previous work, which looked at the transformation of consumer culture in the world, is morality. One thing that became clear in writing Empire of Things was that there's virtually no time or place in history where consumption isn't heavily moralized. Our lifestyle is treated as a mirror of our virtue and sins. And in the course of modern history, there's been a remarkable moral shift in the way that consumption used to be seen as something that led you astray or undermined authority, status, gender roles, and wasted money, to a source of growth, a source of self, fashioning the way we create our own identity. In the last few years, the environmental crisis has led to new questions about whether consumption is good or bad. And in 2015, during the refugee crisis when Germany took in almost a million refugees, morality became a very powerful way in which Germans talked about themselves as humanitarian world champions, as one politician called it. I realized that there's many other topics from family, work, to saving the environment, and of course, with regard to the German responsibility for the Holocaust and the war of extermination where German public discourse is heavily moralistic, so I became interested in charting that historical process."What can we learn from Germany's postwar transformation to help us address today's environmental and humanitarian crises? With the rise of populism, authoritarianism, and digital propaganda, how can history provide insights into the challenges of modern democracy?Frank Trentmann is a Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and at the University of Helsinki. He is a prize-winning historian, having received awards such as the Whitfield Prize, Austrian Wissenschaftsbuch/Science Book Prize, Humboldt Prize for Research, and the 2023 Bochum Historians' Award. He has also been named a Moore Scholar at Caltech. He is the author of Empire of Things and Free Trade Nation. His latest book is Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022, which explores Germany's transformation after the Second World War.www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8009279/frank-trentmannwww.penguin.co.uk/authors/32274/frank-trentmann?tab=penguin-bookswww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Welche Identität, welches Selbstbild haben die Deutschen entwickelt nach der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus? Welche Rolle spielen dabei Ereignisse wie das Attentat auf Hitler vom 20. Juli 1944? Dazu Prof. Frank Trentmann, Historiker und Autor von "Aufbruch des Gewissens".

Am Morgen eine Tasse Kaffee oder Tee zu trinken, ist für uns heute nicht Besonderes. Doch diese kleine Alltagshandlung hat eine lange Vorgeschichte – von den Kaffeebohnen über die Porzellantasse bis hin zur gemütlich geheizten Küche war vor ein paar hundert Jahren nichts selbstverständlich. In der aktuellen Folge von «NZZ Megahertz» erzählt der Historiker Frank Trentmann, wie sich unser Verhältnis zu Besitz verändert hat, wie «die Konsumenten» zu einer politischen Kraft wurden und wie wir uns heutzutage über Besitztümer definieren. Hörerinnen und Hörer von «NZZ Megahertz» lesen die NZZ online oder in gedruckter Form drei Monate lang zum Preis von einem Monat. Zum Angebot: nzz.live/podcastmegahertz

Frank Trentmann, a historian at Birkbeck College at the University of London, discusses his latest, must-read book, Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942-2022. The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues and challenges that will shape Canada's future at home and abroad.If you like what you are hearing on Hub Dialogues consider subscribing to The Hub's free weekly email newsletter featuring our insights and analysis on key public policy issues. Sign up here: https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wie die Deutschen wurden, was sie sind, diskutieren die beiden Historiker Christopher Clark und Frank Trentmann. Ein rasanter Ritt durch deutsche, europäische und globale Geschichte, von 1848 bis heute.

Auf Basis von zahlreichen individuellen Stimmen aus der Bevölkerung zeigt Frank Trentmann, wie dieser Weg quasi »von unten« gesehen und beschritten wurde, beginnend mit der Schlacht von Stalingrad 1941/42. Der Blick der Deutschen auf den Krieg veränderte sich, Fragen von Schuld und Verantwortung kamen auf, Ausgangspunkt für einen Aufbruch des Gewissens. Von der »Entnazifizierung« über Wirtschaftswunder und 68er bis zur Umweltbewegung, von der Erinnerungspolitik bis zu Migration und Asyl, von der Friedensbewegung bis zum Krieg in der Ukraine führt Frank Trentmann die Vielfalt der Haltungen vor Augen. Dabei geht es um die Bundesrepublik genauso wie um die DDR und das wiedervereinte Deutschland. Wie »lernten« die Deutschen im Westen Demokratie? Wie gingen sie in der DDR mit dem Widerspruch zwischen dem Versprechen einer neuen Gesellschaft und der Realität der Diktatur um? Wie wurde in beiden Staaten und nach der Wende über Krieg und Frieden debattiert, über Arbeit und Kindererziehung, über Pflichterfüllung, Nation oder Heimat?

Der renommierte Historiker wirft unter anderem kurz vor Weihnachten einen Blick auf die Geschichte des Konsums.

Re-invention and moral struggles are at the heart of the story of post-war Germany traced by Frank Trentmann in his new book Out of the Darkness. Anne McElvoy talks to him, to Thomas Meaney the new editor of Granta who is bringing out an edition called Deutschland, to journalist Stefanie Bolzen and to New Generation Thinker Dr Tom Smith who has studied the techno scene in German cities. How have 70 years of political struggles shaped Germany's culture and identity? Producer Ruth Watts

Is district heating, not boilers, the answer to lowering our energy use? How should we think of decommissioned factories? Professor Frank Trentmann and Dr Ben Anderson explain the concept of district heating and how cities need to adapt to be more sustainable. Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, where he is the principal investigator of the Material Cultures of Energy project. You can find more information at: http://www7.bbk.ac.uk/mce/about/ Dr Ben Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental History at Keele University. He is currently running two projects, including ‘Decommissioning the Twentieth Century', which aims to establish a new role for local communities in decommissioning large industrial facilities. You can find more information at: https://chatterleywhitfieldfriends.org.uk/news/2524/decommissioning-the-twentieth-century/ The podcast series Green Thinking is 26 episodes 26 minutes long looking at issues relating to COP26 made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI. It explores the latest research and ideas around understanding and tackling the climate and nature emergency. New Generation Thinkers Des Fitzgerald and Eleanor Barraclough are in conversation with researchers about a wide-range of subjects from cryptocurrencies and finance to eco poetry and fast fashion. The podcasts are all available from the Arts & Ideas podcast feed - and collected on the Free Thinking website under Green Thinking where you can also find programmes on mushrooms, forests, rivers, eco-criticism and soil. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07zg0r2 For more information about the research the AHRC's supports around climate change and the natural world you can visit: Responding to climate change – UKRI or follow @ahrcpress on twitter. To join the discussion about the research covered in this podcast and the series please use the hashtag #GreenThinkingPodcast. Producer: Sofie Vilcins

Keine Autos, keine Turnschuhe und selbst Bücher könnten knapp werden. Der uneingeschränkte Konsum scheint bedroht, Lieferungen stocken, das ein oder andere Gut kann nicht direkt geliefert werden. "Es zeigt, wie verwundbar eine Gesellschaft ist", sagte der Historiker Frank Trentmann im Dlf. Frank Trentmann im Gespräch mit Anja Reinhardt www.deutschlandfunk.de, Kultur heute Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Holz zum Bauen, Chips für Autos, aber auch Fahrräder und Turnschuhe: Nahezu überall in Deutschland sind die Engpässe in der globalen Lieferkette spürbar. Simon Kerbusk, der stellvertretende Wirtschaftsressortleiter der ZEIT, berichtet im Podcast, welche wirtschaftlichen Folgen das für die Konjunktur in Deutschland hat – und spricht darüber, ob es sinnvoll wäre, wieder mehr in Deutschland zu produzieren. Armin Laschets Zeiten als Ministerpräsident von Nordrhein-Westfalen sind bald vorbei. Seine Nachfolge soll Hendrik Wüst antreten. Wer ist der Mann? ZEIT ONLINE-Autor Christian Parth spricht von einer schillernden Karriere und einem Skandal in der Vergangenheit des vergleichsweise jungen potenziellen Ministerpräsidenten. Und sonst so? Zum Schulterklopfen in die Telefonzelle ... Moderation und Produktion: Rita Lauter Mitarbeit/Redaktion: Anna-Lena Schlitt, Christina Felschen Fragen, Kritik, Anregungen? Sie erreichen uns unter wasjetzt@zeit.de. Weitere Links zur Folge: Lieferengpässe: Das fehlt gerade noch! (https://www.zeit.de/2021/43/lieferengpaesse-corona-lieferketten-vw-autoindustrie-einzelhandel-weihnachten) Frank Trentmann zu Lieferengpässen: "Das Wenige intensiver genießen" (https://www.zeit.de/2021/43/frank-trentmann-lieferengpaesse-grossbritannien-deutschland-geschichte-mangel) Nordrhein-Westfalen: Armin Laschet schlägt Hendrik Wüst als seinen Nachfolger vor (https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2021-10/nordrhein-westfalen-hendrik-wuest-ministerpraesident-armin-laschet) Armin Laschet: Und was wird aus mir? (https://www.zeit.de/2021/40/armin-laschet-wahlniederlage-bundeswahl-cdu-fraktionsvorsitz-union-jamaika)

Online einkaufen oder Filme streamen: Die Pandemie habe bereits vorherrschende Trends verstärkt, sagt der Historiker Frank Trentmann. Der Konsum werde sich auch künftig weiter aus den Innenstädten verlagern. Darin könnte auch eine Chance liegen. Frank Trentmann im Gespräch mit Ute Welty www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Interview Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

In the first segment [1:18-11:30], hosts Eric Jaffe and Vanessa Quirk discuss this week's top stories: The future of consumption and cities (Frank Trentmann, TNR) https://bit.ly/33YCxrC Portland’s landmark zoning reform (Laura Bliss, CityLab) https://bloom.bg/2E16zA3 In the second segment [11:54 -21:58], Sidewalk Senior Software Engineer Samara Trilling explains why we need to temporarily ban mortgage lending algorithms during the pandemic. (Morning Consult) https://bit.ly/31TicBu / (Aspen Tech Policy Hub) https://bit.ly/2CqQsva And in the final segment [22:05-23:55], the hosts share what made them smile this week. Future predictions from 1964 (Bryan Walsh, Axios Future) https://bit.ly/2PSk087 New job aspiration: official city wizard (Julia Hollingsworth, CNN) https://cnn.it/2DZlbzY

Liking the show?Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here!Support us directly on Pozible! Guest episode from The RegenNarration: Damon Gameau has received multiple standing ovations around the world as he has accompanied the premiere screenings of his visionary documentary film ‘2040'. You might remember our first conversation on this podcast last year, as the film was being finished. This time we're joined by a wonderfully engaged cinema audience, and special guest Julie Leslie, the impressive editor of Circular Style – a new magazine about sustainable, conscious, and circular fashion. What resulted was a fascinating sense of how the film is landing with people - the questions raised and inspiration felt. And some additional stories that aren't in the film, like the instructive story behind how the board game Monopoly used to be played, Damon's visit to the Gross National Happiness centre in Bhutan, what regenerative fashion might look like, and what the growing movement behind 2040 is up to. Anthony starts the conversation by asking the audience a bit about themselves. Only about half the people considered themselves very engaged with themes of sustainability or regeneration, but just about all were very concerned about the future - though interestingly, one person wasn't concerned at all (you'll hear him join the conversation in this podcast). Most tellingly, only a couple of people had ever thought about the sort of positive vision for the future outlined in the film. It emphasises the enormous value of this documentary. 2040, and these conversations, are envisioning new, more aspirational stories to live by, and exploring the changes we can make together that just might bring them about. Anthony hosts Damon and Julie in conversation at the Perth premiere of 2040. With thanks to Adriana Begovich from Anarchy PR. Note: On Anthony's mention of the book Empire of Things, Frank Trentmann reports one third of the items in the average British wardrobe is never worn. Special Guest: Anthony James. Support Climactic See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Liking the show? Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here! Support us directly on Pozible! Guest episode from The RegenNarration: Damon Gameau has received multiple standing ovations around the world as he has accompanied the premiere screenings of his visionary documentary film ‘2040'. You might remember our first conversation on this podcast last year, as the film was being finished. This time we're joined by a wonderfully engaged cinema audience, and special guest Julie Leslie, the impressive editor of Circular Style – a new magazine about sustainable, conscious, and circular fashion. What resulted was a fascinating sense of how the film is landing with people - the questions raised and inspiration felt. And some additional stories that aren't in the film, like the instructive story behind how the board game Monopoly used to be played, Damon's visit to the Gross National Happiness centre in Bhutan, what regenerative fashion might look like, and what the growing movement behind 2040 is up to. Anthony starts the conversation by asking the audience a bit about themselves. Only about half the people considered themselves very engaged with themes of sustainability or regeneration, but just about all were very concerned about the future - though interestingly, one person wasn't concerned at all (you'll hear him join the conversation in this podcast). Most tellingly, only a couple of people had ever thought about the sort of positive vision for the future outlined in the film. It emphasises the enormous value of this documentary. 2040, and these conversations, are envisioning new, more aspirational stories to live by, and exploring the changes we can make together that just might bring them about. Anthony hosts Damon and Julie in conversation at the Perth premiere of 2040. With thanks to Adriana Begovich from Anarchy PR. Note: On Anthony's mention of the book Empire of Things, Frank Trentmann reports one third of the items in the average British wardrobe is never worn. Special Guest: Anthony James. Support Climactic Support the show: https://www.climactic.fm/p/support-the-collective/

Liking the show?Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here!Support us directly on Pozible!Guest episode from The RegenNarration:Damon Gameau has received multiple standing ovations around the world as he has accompanied the premiere screenings of his visionary documentary film ‘2040'. You might remember our first conversation on this podcast last year, as the film was being finished. This time we're joined by a wonderfully engaged cinema audience, and special guest Julie Leslie, the impressive editor of Circular Style – a new magazine about sustainable, conscious, and circular fashion.What resulted was a fascinating sense of how the film is landing with people - the questions raised and inspiration felt. And some additional stories that aren't in the film, like the instructive story behind how the board game Monopoly used to be played, Damon's visit to the Gross National Happiness centre in Bhutan, what regenerative fashion might look like, and what the growing movement behind 2040 is up to.Anthony starts the conversation by asking the audience a bit about themselves. Only about half the people considered themselves very engaged with themes of sustainability or regeneration, but just about all were very concerned about the future - though interestingly, one person wasn't concerned at all (you'll hear him join the conversation in this podcast).Most tellingly, only a couple of people had ever thought about the sort of positive vision for the future outlined in the film. It emphasises the enormous value of this documentary. 2040, and these conversations, are envisioning new, more aspirational stories to live by, and exploring the changes we can make together that just might bring them about.Anthony hosts Damon and Julie in conversation at the Perth premiere of 2040.With thanks to Adriana Begovich from Anarchy PR.Note: On Anthony's mention of the book Empire of Things, Frank Trentmann reports one third of the items in the average British wardrobe is never worn.Special Guest: Anthony James.Support Climactic See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Konsum ist der Motor unserer Zivilisation, doch wie hat sich im Lauf der Zeit unsere Art und Weise zu konsumieren, und auch das Image des Konsums gewandelt? Darüber spricht Frank Trentmann im 'SR 1 Abendrot Talk' mit SR 1 Moderator Stefan Berger.

Damon Gameau has received multiple standing ovations around the world as he has accompanied the premiere screenings of his visionary documentary film ‘2040'. You might remember our first conversation on this podcast last year, as the film was being finished. This time we're joined by a wonderfully engaged cinema audience, and special guest Julie Leslie, the impressive editor of Circular Style – a new magazine about sustainable, conscious, and circular fashion. What resulted was a fascinating sense of how the film is landing with people - the questions raised and inspiration felt. And some additional stories that aren't in the film, like the instructive story behind how the board game Monopoly used to be played, Damon's visit to the Gross National Happiness centre in Bhutan, what regenerative fashion might look like, and what the growing movement behind 2040 is up to. Anthony starts the conversation by asking the audience a bit about themselves. Only about half the people considered themselves very engaged with themes of sustainability or regeneration, but just about all were very concerned about the future - though interestingly, one person wasn't concerned at all (you'll hear him join the conversation in this episode). Most tellingly, only a couple of people had ever thought about the sort of positive vision for the future outlined in the film. It emphasises the enormous value of this documentary. 2040, and these conversations, are envisioning new, more aspirational stories to live by, and exploring the changes we can make together that just might bring them about. Anthony hosts Damon and Julie in conversation at the Perth premiere of 2040. With thanks to Adriana Begovich from Anarchy PR. Note: On Anthony's mention of the book Empire of Things, Frank Trentmann reports one third of the items in the average British wardrobe is never worn. Music: 'Velvet's Unicorn' and 'Future', by Bryony Marks off the 2040 Soundtrack. Get more: The 2040 film website, including how to see it or screen it yourself, the book release, and how to get more involved - https://www.madmanfilms.com.au/2040film/ Circular Style Magazine (and Julie's Shopportunity Knocks tours) - https://www.circularstyle.com.au Anthony & Damon in conversation last year for episode 30, on 2040 Vision: Climate change, fear & loathing - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/030-2040-vision Send us your comments by text or audio - https://www.regennarration.com/story Thanks to our community of listeners and partners for making the hours of labour that go into each episode possible. Please consider supporting the podcast by donating or becoming a podcast partner at www.regennarration.com/support. Thank you!

Der große Jahresrückblick im "Wissenschaftsradio" - moderiert von Paul Buchacher und Michel Mehle. Mit spannenden Gästen sprechen wir über die Themen, die Österreich und die Welt bewegt haben & die auch in der Sendung Thema waren. Von der neuen Datenschutzverordnung bis zum möglichen Facebook-Daten-Skandal. Michael Traxlmayr, Sieger der Wissenschaftsradio-Pitch-Challenge, und Star-Moderator Andreas Jäger, Juror dieser Sendung, sind bei uns. Frank Trentmann ist zu Gast, der für sein Werk über den Konsum mit dem "Wissenschaftsbuch-Preis des Jahres" geehrt wurde. Und wir prüfen, ob das Weihnachtsgeschenk der Zukunft vielleicht wirklich aus dem 3D-Drucker kommt. Credit: Pixabay

Iulian Moise este Head of GCC Internet Banking la UBIS (UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions), una dintre entitățile grupului bancar UniCredit. A ajuns să lucreze ca programator fără să știe programare, după ce a trimis un CV (gol!) către o adresă de mail scrisă în binar, de pe un afiș lipit în campusul Politehnicii din București. De atunci însă, trecut din industria de telecomunicații la cea bancară și folosim zilnic produse la care el a contribuit. În acest episod de podcast am discutat cu Iulian Moise despre banca viitorului, despre cognitive biases și despre transformarea unei organizații Waterfall într-un AGILE, dar nu numai! De exemplu, am încercat să aflăm dacă românii sunt un popor AGILE! A ieșit o discuție dinamică și captivantă, pe care o vei asculta cu plăcere. Iulian ne-a recomandat să citim The Economist, dar și câteva cărți: Sapiens și Homo Deus, ambele de Yuval Noah Harari și recomandate și de alți invitați ai podacast-ului nostru, Alina Georgescu și Radu Davidescu; A little history of economics, de Niall Kishtainy; The general Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, de John Maynard Keynes; Empire of Things, de Frank Trentmann. Poți asculta podacst-ul Rețeaua și pe Soundcloud.

Prominent economic and political historians will come together to give their perspectives on what the past can tell us about the future. Has the referendum result changed our constitution irrevocably? How and when will we leave? How are the negotiations likely to work and what are the precedents? What can Britain’s pre-European past tell us about its economic future? Above all, what challenges will Westminster and Whitehall face over the coming years as they address these questions? The discussions seek to offer long-range guidance and perspective to policy makers in a situation for which there is no institutional memory. Historical context has never been more important. 2 November 2016 - 14:00 pm - 18:00 pm

Frank Trentmann discusses his history of consumerism "Empire of Things" with Anne McElvoy and Brooke Unger, our consumer expert, and reveals the guilty purchasing pleasures he can't resist See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Frank Trentmann discusses his history of consumerism "Empire of Things" with Anne McElvoy and Brooke Unger, our consumer expert, and reveals the guilty purchasing pleasures he can't resist See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Frank Trentmann explores how our patterns of consumption have changed over the centuries, while Christine Gross-Loh discusses the legacy of ancient Chinese thinkers See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Consumerism: a history of our modern, material world and the endless quest for more 'things'. Laurie Taylor talks to Frank Trentmann, Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London and author of a study which examines how the purchase of goods became the defining feature of contemporary life. They're joined by Rachel Bowlby, Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. Also, the middle class bias in work/life balance research. Tracey Warren, Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, suggests that working class experience of precarity complicates the debate. Producer: Jayne Egerton.

Frank Trentmann talks about the relationship between free trade and the budget and how the conflict between the ideas of free trade and protectionism shaped the 1909 budget.