Cultures of selling : perspectives on consumption and society since 1700 /
Benson, John,1945 July 23-
Ugolini, Laura,1980-
Aldershot : Ashgate,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / John Benson and Laura Ugolini -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Retail trade
Shopping