Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern England
Details:
- Author(s) Cox, Nancy, & Karin Dannehl
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2007
- Pages 214pp; illus
- Publisher Ashgate Publishing
- Place Published Aldershot
Topics:
- Name Advertising
- Name Consumption, consumerism & associated ethics
- Name Cultural representations of business
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Explores how contemporaries - onlookers, artists , commentators - perceived retailing / consumption through visual, literary, advertising / promotional , etc, mediums. adopts two underlying themes - perceptions of location and distance. Includes much about advertising, itinerants, London retailing, etc. Chapters include: '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'