Taking Stock and Forging Ahead: The Past and Future of Consumption History-- H.Berghoff & U.Spiekermann PART I: CONSUMPTION HISTORY TODAY Consumption History in Europe: an Overview of Recent Trends-- H.G.Haupt Research on the History of Consumption in the USA: An Overview-- G.Cross The Hidden Consumer: Consumption in the Economic History of Japan-- P.Francks Consumption, Identities, and Agency in Africa: An Overview-- H.P.Hahn PART II: CONSUMPTION AND HISTORICAL SUB-DISCIPLINES The Business of Consumer Culture History: Systems, Interactions, and Modernization-- P.W.Laird Affluence and Sustainability: Environmental History and the History of Consumption-- F.Uekoetter Consumption Politics and Politicized Consumption: Monarchy, Republic, and Dictatorship in Germany, 1900--1939-- H.Berghoff Consumption and Space: Inner-City Pedestrian Malls and the Consequences of Changing Consumer Geographies-- J.Logemann Continental Europeans Respond to American Consumer Culture: Jurgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, and Umberto Eco-- D.Horowitz PART III: CASE STUDIES 'God's Own Consumers': Billy Graham, Mass Evangelism, and Consumption in the United States during the 1950s-- U.A.Balbier A Historical Herbal: Household Medicine and Herbal Commerce in a Developing Consumer Society-- S.Strasser Science, Fruits, and Vegetables: A Case Study on the Interaction of Knowledge and Consumption in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany-- U.Spiekermann An Ambivalent Embrace: Businessmen, Mass Consumption, and Visions of America in the Third Reich-- S.J.Wiesen.