Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9781138266407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 250 str.

Nancy Cox; Karin Dannehl

Opis

Whilst there has been much recent scholarly work on retailing during the early-modern period, much less is known about how people at the time perceived retailing. Centred around the general theme of perceptions, this book addresses this gap in our knowledge, looking at a different aspect of consumption.This book will prove essential reading for anyone interested in British social and economic history in the early modern period and among those interested with the history of retailing and of consumption. Although first and foremost a book written by historians for historians, it nevertheless borrows concepts and approaches from various disciplines concerned with theories of consumption, material culture, and representational art.

Recenzje

’This is an interesting approach to an important subject... The purpose of the authors' argument is to reorient thinking about retailing by focusing on culture, rather than treating it as a branch of economic history. In this they are successful and convincing.’ Renaissance Quarterly

Spis treści

Contents: General Editor's preface; Preface; Prologue; Retail contexts; Visual and literary representations of retailing; Itinerant traders and others; Virtual supply; Place names and fashions; Distance selling: provinces and metropolis; Making shoppers; Access and availability; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Dr Nancy Cox is Honorary Research Fellow and Academic Editor/Dictionary Project, Dr Karin Dannehl is a Research Fellow and Executive Editor/Dictionary Project, both at the University of Wolverhampton, UK