Back to the Shops. The high street in history and the future
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- Author(s) Bowlby, Rachel
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2022
- Pages 288pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Authoritative account written by a scholar for a broad readership, largely about cultural aspects of modes of selling and shop types in history and touching on prospects for the future. Provides c30 short chapters, structured in three parts: 'Settings'; 'Roles'; and 'Specialities'. Part 1] 'Chains'; 'Convenience'; 'Fixed prices'; 'Local shops'; 'Mail order'; 'Markets'; 'Self-service and supermarkets'; 'Shopping centres'; 'Shop windows'; 'Sources'; Part 2] 'Collections'; 'Counters'; 'Credit and credibility'; 'Customer loyalty'; 'Motor vans and motor buses'; 'Nineteenth century bazaars'; 'Pedlars'; 'Saturday nights and Sundays'; 'Scenes of shopping'; 'Shopworkers and shopkeepers'; Part 3] 'Bakers'; 'Butchers'; 'Chemists'; 'Florists'; 'Furniture shops'; 'Haberdashery'; 'Household goods'; 'Jewellers'; 'Sweet shops'; 'Umbrella shops'