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Matthew  Hilton m.j.hilton@bham.ac.uk University of Birmingham Department of Modern History Edgbaston B15 2TT Birmingham UNITED KINGDOM phone: +44 (0)121 414 7697 fax: +44 (0)121 414 3656

Biographical Sketch

Matthew Hilton is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of several articles on consumerism and citizenship as well as Smoking in British Popular Culture, 1800-2000 (Manchester, 2000) and Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement (Cambridge, 2003). He has also edited, with Martin Daunton, The Politics of Consumption: Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America (Berg, 2001) and, with Marie Chessel and Alain Chatriot, Au nom du consommateur: la consommation entre mobilisation sociale et politique publique dans les pays occidentaux au XX siécle (Paris, 2004). In 2002 he won the Philip Leverhulme Prize, enabling him to embark on a project on the consumer in global civil society. In 2005 he will be a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Studies, Harvard University.