TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benson,John
AU  - Ugolini,Laura
TI  - Cultures of selling: perspectives on consumption and society since 1700 
T2  - The history of retailing and consumption
SN  - 0754650464
AV  - HF5429 .C755 2006
U1  - 339.47 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Shopping
KW  - History
N1  - 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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