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Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes (Paperback)
Alison Adburgham (author)
£17.00
Paperback
344 Pages /
Published: 20/09/2012
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First published in 1964, Alison Adburgham's Shops and Shopping, 1880-1914: Where and in What Matter the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes is a rightly celebrated and groundbreaking contribution to the social history of retail selling.
Adburgham charts the Victorian origins and subsequent ascent of the 'department store', a mode of shopping that offered the customer an enviable selection of wares, a fixed price, and a recreational browsing experience that began with goods placed temptingly behind plate-glass and continued through shops carefully arranged so that customers might wander. These great emporia changed the labours and livelihoods of craftspeople and small shop-keepers, enhanced the reputation of England's capital and regional cities, and even altered the social climate of England.
Immaculately researched from primary sources, Shops and Shopping is one of the key texts in the scholarly analysis of early mass consumer culture.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571296019
Number of pages: 344
Weight: 526 g
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 16 mm
Edition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
A valuable and welcome undergraduate textbook. Environment and Planning
Recommended unreservedly to managers and planners in the distributive trades and to all those who are concerned with the implications of current trends in the provision of shopping facilities. Retail Distribution and Management
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