The emergence of modern retailing, 1750-1950 / Emergence of modern retailing, seventeen fifty-nineteen fifty Emergence of modern retailing, 1750 to 1950 edited by Nicholas Alexander and Gary Akehurst. - 173 pages : illustrations, 3 maps ; 23 cm

"This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue of Business History (ISSN 0007-6791), Vol. 40, No. 4 (October 1998)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the emergence of modern retailing, 1750-1950 / Consumer-owned community flour and bread societies in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Changes in provincial retail practice during the eighteenth century, with particular reference to central-southern England / Stocking the store : co-operative retailers in north-east England and systems of wholesale supply, circa 1860-77 / Structural and spatial trends in British retailing : the importance of firm-level studies / 'Municipal store' : adaptation and development in the retail markets of nineteenth-century urban Lancashire / Retailing history as economic and cultural history : strategies of survival by specialist tobacconists in the mass market / Fascist 'disciplining' of the Italian retail sector, 1922-40 / Nicholas Alexander and Gary Akehurst -- Joshua Bamfield -- Christina Fowler -- Martin Purvis -- Gareth Shaw ... [et al.] -- Deborah Hodson -- Matthew Hilton -- Jonathan Morris.

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Retail trade--History
Retail trade--History--Great Britain

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