Title Back to the Shops : the High Street in History and the Future / Rachel Bowlby

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages) Contents Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction -- PART I SETTINGS -- 1 Chains -- 2 Convenience -- 3 Fixed Prices -- 4 Local Shops -- 5 Mail Order -- 6 Markets -- 7 Self-Service and Supermarkets -- 8 Shopping Centres -- 9 Shop Windows -- 10 Sources -- PART II ROLES -- 11 Collections -- 12 Counters -- 13 Credit and Credibility -- 14 Customer Loyalty -- 15 Motor Vans and Motor Buses -- 16 Nineteenth-Century Bazaars -- 17 Pedlars -- 18 Saturday Nights and Sundays -- 19 Scenes of Shopping -- 20 Shopworkers and Shopkeepers PART III SPECIALITIES -- 21 Bakers -- 22 Butchers -- 23 Chemists -- 24 Florists -- 25 Furniture Shops -- 26 Haberdashery -- 27 Household Goods -- 28 Jewellers -- 29 Sweet Shops -- 30 Umbrella Shops -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Index Summary Over time, shops have occupied radically different places in cultural arguments and everyday lives. Back to the Shops offers a set of short, often surprising chapters, each one a window into a different shop type or mode of selling Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 16, 2022) Subject Retail trade -- Great Britain -- History Stores, Retail -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History Shopping -- Great Britain -- History Retail trade Shopping Stores, Retail -- Social aspects Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192547934 0192547933 9780192547927 0192547925

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