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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Their or, Rather, Our Books -- Part One Theory, Methods, Tactics, and Politics -- Chapter 1 Reading and Wanting: Commodity Culture Needs Readers -- Chapter 2 Book Retail: A Test Bed for Sustainable Economics -- Chapter 3 Je Suis the Unknown Public -- Chapter 4 When Books Come to Town: International Aspirations, High Street-Bound -- Part Two Southampton Stories -- Chapter 5 What's Selling in Southampton: Commodity Culture, Dock Strikes, and Gas-and-Water Socialism -- Chapter 6 The Daily Round |
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Chapter 7 High Street Southampton Bookshops -- Chapter 8 Gilbert's: A Treetop in the Networked Forest -- Part Three Factual Fictions -- Chapter 9 Five Visits to Gilbert's -- Visit 1, Henry -- Visit 2, Rita -- Visit 3, the Engineer -- Visit 4, Sylvie -- Visit 5, Milbeya -- Part Four Theory, Methods, Tactics, and Politics, 2.0 -- Chapter 10 Reading Entertainment and the Construction of Economic Reality -- Chapter 11 Events, Frames, and History: Getting What We Want from a Book -- Chapter 12 Whose Is the Question Économique? -- Conclusion |
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Appendix: Biblioteca: Toward a Bibliography of Works Published by H.M. Gilbert and Sons -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Uses a historical study of bookselling and readers as a way to question and rethink our understanding of the market for symbolic goods |
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Booksellers and bookselling -- Economic aspects -- England -- Southampton -- History -- 20th century
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Bookstores -- England -- Southampton -- History -- 20th century
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Books and reading -- England -- Southampton -- History -- 20th century
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Books and reading -- Economic aspects -- England -- Southampton -- History -- 20th century
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Books and reading
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Booksellers and bookselling -- Economic aspects
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Bookstores
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England -- Southampton
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781438483535 |
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1438483538 |
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