Buying for the home : shopping for the domestic from the seventeenth century to the present / edited by David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby.
Material type: TextSeries: History of retailing and consumptionPublisher: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0754658074
- 9780754658078
- 640 22
- TX15 .B985 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Between the Shop and the Home / David Hussey, Margaret Ponsonby -- Part 1. Retail Arenas and the 'Everyday' -- 1. Shopping at First Hand? Mistresses, Servants and Shopping for the Household in Early-Modern England / Claire Walsh -- 2. 'To Families Furnishing Kitchens': Domestic Utensils and their Use in the Eighteenth-Century Home / Karin Dannehl -- 3. Guns, Horses and Stylish Waistcoats? Male Consumer Activity and Domestic Shopping in Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century England / David Hussey -- Part 2. Shopping for Identities? -- 4. Liberty and Lifestyle: Shopping for Art and Luxury in Nineteenth-Century London / Sonia Ashmore -- 5. 'Artistic and Commercial' Japan: Modernity, Authenticity and Japanese Leather Paper / Yasuko Suga -- Part 3. Fashioning the Domestic: Making and Re-Making the Home through Consumption -- 6. Desirable Commodity or Practical Necessity? The Sale and Consumption of Second-Hand Furniture, 1750-1900 / Clive Edwards, Margaret Ponsonby -- 7. 'A Pretty Custom' Updated: From 'Going to Housekeeping' to Bridal Showers in the United States, 1850s-1930s / Shirley Teresa Wajda -- Part 4. Consumption for the Home as Cultural Practice -- 8. The Milkman always Rang Twice: The Effects of Changed Provisioning on Dutch Domestic Architecture / Irene Cieraad -- 9. From Ground Force to Garden-Making: How Ordinary Gardeners Consume Television Lifestyle Aesthetics / Lisa Taylor -- 10. Taking a Look at the Wild Side of DIY Home Decor / Judy Attfield.
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