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Back to the shops : the high street in history and the future / Rachel Bowlby.
Lippincott Library HF5429 .B6235 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowlby, Rachel, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stores, Retail--Social aspects.
- Stores, Retail.
- Shopping--History.
- Shopping.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. SETTINGS
- 1. Chain
- 2. Convenience
- 3. Fixed Prices
- 4. Local Shops
- 5. Mail Order
- 6. Markets
- 7. Self-Service and Supermarkets
- 8. Shopping Centres
- 9. Shop Windows
- 10. Sources
- II. ROLES
- 11. Collections
- 12. Counters
- 13. Credit and Credibility
- 14. Customer Loyalty
- 15. Motor Vans and Motor Buses
- 16. Nineteenth-Century Bazaars
- 17. Pedlars
- 18. Saturday Nights and Sundays
- 19. Scenes of Shopping
- 20. Shopworkers and Shopkeepers
- III. SPECIALITIES
- 21. Bakers
- 22. Butchers
- 23. Chemists
- 24. Florists
- 25. Furniture Shops
- 26. Haberdashery
- 27. Household Goods
- 28. Jewellers
- 29. Sweet Shops
- 30. Umbrella Shops.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780198815914
- 0198815913
- OCLC:
- 1261305008
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