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Reading, wanting, and broken economics : a twenty-first-century study of readers and bookshops in Southampton around 1900 / Simon Frost.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frost, Simon R., author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in the history of books, publishing, and the book trades
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Booksellers and bookselling--Economic aspects--England--Southampton--History--20th century.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Bookstores--England--Southampton--History--20th century.
- Bookstores.
- Books and reading--England--Southampton--History--20th century.
- Books and reading.
- Books and reading--Economic aspects--England--Southampton--History--20th century.
- History.
- Booksellers and bookselling--Economic aspects.
- England--Southampton.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: Their or, Rather, Our Books
- Part One: Theory, Methods, Tactics, and Politics
- Reading and Wanting
- Book Retail: A Test Bed for Sustainable Economics
- Je suis the Unknown Public
- When Books Come to Town: International Aspirations, High Street Bound
- Part Two: Southampton Stories
- What's Selling in Southampton: Commodity Culture, Dock Strikes, and Gas and Water Socialism
- The Daily Round
- High Street Southampton Book Shops
- Gilbert's: A Treetop in the Networked Forest
- Part Three: Factual Fictions
- Five Visits to Gilbert's
- Part Four: Theory, Methods, Tactics, and Politics, 2.0
- Reading Entertainment and the Construction of Economic Reality
- Events, Frames and History: Getting What We Want from a Book
- Whose Iis the Question Économique?
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Biblioteca: Towards a Bibliography of Works Published by H.M. Gilbert and Sons.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438483535
- 1438483538
- Publisher Number:
- 40030476224
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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