World Literary Awards

← Back to Home

Frank Trentmann

フランク・トレントマン

Furanku Torentoman

Profile

Gender
Male
Nationality
United Kingdom
Languages
English, German
Residence History
London

Career

Occupations
historian, Professor of History
Active Years
1995-2024
Affiliations
Birkbeck, University of London

Education

University of Hamburg
History
Country: Germany
London School of Economics and Political Science
History
Country: United Kingdom
Harvard University
History
Degree: PhD
Country: United States

Awards

Whitfield Prize
2008
Work: Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain
Organization: Royal Historical Society
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942–2022

2024 History

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

2016 History

Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain

2008 History

Bibliography

  • Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942–2022 (Knopf, 2024)
  • Empire of Things – How we became a world of consumers from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first (Allen Lane/Penguin 2016)
  • Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, 2008)
  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Oxford University Press, 2012)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Specialist in the history of consumption

Legacy

A prominent historian specializing in the history of consumption, awarded the Whitfield Prize by the Royal Historical Society.