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