Cultures of selling : perspectives on consumption and society since 1700 /
Cultures of selling : perspectives on consumption and society since 1700 /
edited by John Benson and Laura Ugolini.
- xiv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- The history of retailing and consumption .
- History of retailing and consumption. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Itineraries and spaces of selling -- West End shopping with Vogue : 1930s geographies of metropolitan consumption / Beyond the boundary of the shop : retail advertising spaces in eighteenth-century provincial England / Creating new spaces of food consumption : the rise of mass catering and the activities of the Aerated Bread Company / "Speciousness is the bucketeer's watchword and outrageous effrontery his capital" : financial bucket shops in the city of London, c. 1880-1939 / Buy now - pay later : credit : the mainstay of the retail furniture business? / "Funny money", hidden charges and repossession : working-class experiences of consumption and credit in the inter-war years / "The customer is always right" : change and continuity in British and American department store salesmanship, 1945-1960 / "The diligent hand maketh rich" : commercial advice for retailers in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century England / Interactions of discontent : customers, sales assistants and the state in the German Democratic Republic, 1970-1989 / The view from the shop : window display, the shopper and the formulation of theory / John Benson and Laura Ugolini -- Bronwen Edwards -- Victoria Morgan -- Gareth Shaw, Louise Hill Curth and Andrew Alexander -- Dilwyn Porter -- Clive Edwards -- Avram Taylor -- Joy Cushman -- Elizabeth Anne Rothenberg -- Christina Schroder -- Susan Lomax. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
0754650464 9780754650461
2005024150
Shopping--History
HF5429 / .C755 2006
339.47
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Itineraries and spaces of selling -- West End shopping with Vogue : 1930s geographies of metropolitan consumption / Beyond the boundary of the shop : retail advertising spaces in eighteenth-century provincial England / Creating new spaces of food consumption : the rise of mass catering and the activities of the Aerated Bread Company / "Speciousness is the bucketeer's watchword and outrageous effrontery his capital" : financial bucket shops in the city of London, c. 1880-1939 / Buy now - pay later : credit : the mainstay of the retail furniture business? / "Funny money", hidden charges and repossession : working-class experiences of consumption and credit in the inter-war years / "The customer is always right" : change and continuity in British and American department store salesmanship, 1945-1960 / "The diligent hand maketh rich" : commercial advice for retailers in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century England / Interactions of discontent : customers, sales assistants and the state in the German Democratic Republic, 1970-1989 / The view from the shop : window display, the shopper and the formulation of theory / John Benson and Laura Ugolini -- Bronwen Edwards -- Victoria Morgan -- Gareth Shaw, Louise Hill Curth and Andrew Alexander -- Dilwyn Porter -- Clive Edwards -- Avram Taylor -- Joy Cushman -- Elizabeth Anne Rothenberg -- Christina Schroder -- Susan Lomax. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
0754650464 9780754650461
2005024150
Shopping--History
HF5429 / .C755 2006
339.47