Cultures of selling : perspectives on consumption and society since 1700 / edited by John Benson and Laura Ugolini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benson, John, 1945 July 23-

Ugolini, Laura, 1980-

Series:

History of retailing and consumption

The history of retailing and consumption

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Retail trade--History.

Retail trade.

Shopping--History.

Shopping.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction / John Benson and Laura Ugolini

Itineraries and spaces of selling

West End shopping with Vogue : 1930s geographies of metropolitan consumption / Bronwen Edwards

Beyond the boundary of the shop : retail advertising spaces in eighteenth-century provincial England / Victoria Morgan

Creating new spaces of food consumption : the rise of mass catering and the activities of the Aerated Bread Company / Gareth Shaw, Louise Curth and Andrew Alexander

Wheeling and dealing

'Speciousness is the bucketeer's watchword and outrageous effrontery his capital' : financial bucket shops in the city of London, c. 1880-1939 / Dilwyn Porter

Buy now, pay later : credit, the mainstay of the retail furniture business? / Clive Edwards

'Funny money,' hidden charges and repossession : working-class experiences of consumption and credit in the inter-war years / Avram Taylor

Good salesmanship

'The customer is always right' : change and continuity in British and American department store salesmanship, 1945-1960 / Joy Cushman

'The diligent hand maketh rich' : commercial advice for retailers in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England / Elizabeth Anne Rothenberg

Interactions of discontent : customers, sales assistants and the state in the German Democratic Republic, 1970-1989 / Christina Schröder

The view from the shop : window display, the shopper and the formulation of theory / Susan Lomax.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754650464

OCLC:

61361576