TY - BOOK AU - Hussey,D.E. AU - Ponsonby,Margaret TI - Buying for the home: shopping for the domestic from the seventeenth century to the present T2 - History of retailing and consumption SN - 0754658074 AV - TX15 .B985 2008 U1 - 640 22 PY - 2008///] CY - Aldershot, Hampshire, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate Pub. Co. KW - Home economics KW - History KW - England KW - Social life and customs KW - United States N1 - 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 ER -