Cultures of selling : perspectives on consumption and society since 1700 / edited by John Benson and Laura Ugolini.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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