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Title Cultures of selling : perspectives on consumption and society since 1700 / edited by John Benson and Laura Ugolini
Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]
©2006

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Description xiv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series The history of retailing and consumption
History of retailing and consumption.
Contents Introduction / John Benson and Laura Ugolini -- Sect 1 : Itineraries and spaces of selling -- West End shopping with Vogue : 1930s geographies of metropolitan consumption / Bronwen Edwards -- Beyond the boundary of the shop : retail advertising spaces in eighteenth-century provincial England / Victoria Morgan -- Creating new spaces of food consumption : the rise of mass catering and the activities of the Aerated Bread Company / Gareth Shaw, Louise Curth and Andrew Alexander -- Sect. 2 : Wheeling and dealing -- 'Speciousness is the bucketeer's watchword and outrageous effrontery his capital' : financial bucket shops in the city of London, c. 1880-1939 / Dilwyn Porter -- Buy now, pay later : credit, the mainstay of the retail furniture business? / Clive Edwards -- 'Funny money,' : hidden charges and repossession : working-class experiences of consumption and credit in the inter-war years / Avram Taylor -- Sect. 3 : Good salesmanship -- 'The customer is always right' : change and continuity in British and American department store salesmanship, 1945-1960 / Joy Cushman -- 'The diligent hand maketh rich' : commercial advice for retailers in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England / Elizabeth Anne Rothenberg -- Interactions of discontent : customers, sales assistants and the state in the German Democratic Republic, 1970-1989 / Christina Schröder -- The view from the shop : window display, the shopper and the formulation of theory / Susan Lomax
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Retail trade -- History.
Shopping -- History.
Author Benson, John, 1945 July 23-
Ugolini, Laura, 1980-
LC no. 2005024150
ISBN 0754650464 alkaline paper