John Green. Willi Münzenberg. Fighter against Fascism and Stalinism. [Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics.] Routledge, London [etc.] 2019. xiii, 288 pp. Ill. £120.00. (Paper, E-book: £34.99.)

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Discomfort about the overarching goal of capitalist economies, and the idea that achieving ever higher levels of consumption of products and services is a vacuous goal, has been with us since the onset of industrialization. This contribution looks at the pheno!11enon and foundations of voluntary simplicity. Its psychological implications and consequences for societies are discussed.

Early Modern Conceptions of Property. Ed. by John Brewer and Susan Staves. [Consumption and culture in 17th and 18th centuries, 2.] Routledge, London [etc.] 1995. xiv, 599 pp. Ill. Maps. 80.00

In 1982 Neil McKendrick, John Brewer and J.H. Plumb helped to open up a new area of social and cultural history by publishing The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England (London, Europa). There had been earlier studies, but in economic history consumption had clearly caught the imagination less than production. Social historians had focused on the living...

Book Review: Robin Mason and Frank Rennie, e-Learning: The Key Concepts. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. xxxviii + 158 pp. ISBN 0415373077, $24.95 (pbk)

1993 Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Text to Context (London: Routledge).

This collection of essays contributes to the field of hypertext and cyber-culture studies, which has developed in parallel with the Internet and the World Wide Web over the past ten years. Its main purpose is to elaborate and apply to the field a new rhetoric that would be suitable and original. Or, as Espen Aarseth puts it in the introduction to ''Aporia and Epiphany in Doom and the Speaking C...

Book Review: R. Dingwall and S. Frost (eds.), Health and Safety in a Changing World, Routledge, London, 2017