The Force of Fashion in Politics and Society

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• Throughout history, fashion has emerged as one of the most powerful driving forces determining the political, economic and social ramifications of the... Lees meer

The Politics of Provisions

John Bohstedt

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• The elemental power of food politics has not been fully appraised. Food marketing and consumption were matters of politics as much as economics as Eng... Lees meer

Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England

Tammy C Whitlock

• Paperback | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• Whilst the actual origins of English consumer culture are a source of much debate, it is clear that the nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in r... Lees meer

The Complete Tradesman

Nancy Cox

• Paperback | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• The Complete Tradesman redresses the relative paucity of studies on the history of retailing before 1800. Based upon extensive research into diverse t... Lees meer

Clothing Culture, 1350-1650

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• Addressing the subject of clothing in relation to such fundamental issues as national identity, social distinction, gender, the body, religion and pol... Lees meer

Making, Selling and Wearing Boys' Clothes in Late-Victorian England

Clare Rose

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• There has been a great deal of recent interest in masculine clothing, examining both its production and consumption, and the ways in which it was used... Lees meer

Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945

Lydia Langer

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• After World War II, structures, practices and the culture of retailing in most West European countries went through a period of rapid change. The post... Lees meer

The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

David Hussey, Margaret Ponsonby

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century represents a new synthesis of gender history and material culture studies. It... Lees meer

Turning Houses Into Homes

Clive Edwards

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• From the earliest times, people have striven to turn their houses into homes through the use of decoration and furnishings, stimulating in turn a majo... Lees meer

Buying for the Home

Margaret Ponsonby

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• Buying for the Home is a book about the experiences and also the polarities of shopping and the home. It analyses the ways in which the agencies and d... Lees meer

The Politics of Provisions

John Bohstedt

• Paperback | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• The elemental power of food politics has not been fully appraised. Food marketing and consumption were matters of politics as much as economics as Eng... Lees meer

The Expert Consumer

Alain Chatriot, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel

• Paperback | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• Recent work has focused on the politics of consumption and its manifestation in a number of situations. This volume extends these debates, providing a... Lees meer

From Physick to Pharmacology

• Paperback | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• From Physick to Pharmacology addresses the important, albeit neglected history of the distribution and sale of medicinal drugs in England from the six... Lees meer

Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern England

Nancy Cox, Karin Dannehl

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• Whilst there has been much recent scholarly work on retailing during the early modern period, less is known about how people at the time perceived ret... Lees meer

Stories from Home

Margaret Ponsonby

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• Most homes in the past were not elite, wealthy interiors complete with high fashion furnishings, designed by well-known architects and designers, as m... Lees meer

Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900

Bert de Munck, Dries Lyna

• Paperback | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything from ... Lees meer

The Complete Tradesman

Nancy Cox

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• The Complete Tradesman redresses the relative paucity of studies on the history of retailing before 1800. Based upon extensive research into diverse t... Lees meer

Tradition and Innovation in English Retailing, 1700 to 1850

Ian Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• Three decades of research into retailing in England from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries has established a seemingly clear narrative: fixed sh... Lees meer

Furniture-Makers and Consumers in England, 1754-1851

Akiko Shimbo

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• Covering the period from the publication of Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director (1754) to the Great Exhibition (1851), thi... Lees meer

Turning Houses Into Homes

Clive Edwards

• Paperback | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• From the earliest times, people have striven to turn their houses into homes through the use of decoration and furnishings, stimulating in turn a majo... Lees meer

Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660-1830

Helen Berry, Jeremy Gregory

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• Historians of the long eighteenth century have recently recognised that this period is central both to the history of cultural production and consumpt... Lees meer

The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

David Hussey, Margaret Ponsonby

• Paperback | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century represents a new synthesis of gender history and material culture studies. It... Lees meer

Tradition and Innovation in English Retailing, 1700 to 1850

Ian Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• Three decades of research into retailing in England from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries has established a seemingly clear narrative: fixed sh... Lees meer

Furniture-Makers and Consumers in England, 1754-1851

Akiko Shimbo

• Paperback | Engels | History of Retailing and Consumption
• Covering the period from the publication of Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director (1754) to the Great Exhibition (1851), thi... Lees meer