Cultures of selling
Subtitle: perspectives on consumption and society since 1700
By: edited by John Benson and Laura Ugolini.
Contributors: Benson, John, 1945 July 23-; Ugolini, Laura, 1980-
Series: The history of retailing and consumption
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Retail trade -- History.; Shopping -- History.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John Benson and Laura Ugolini; title: Itineraries and spaces of selling; title: West end shopping with vogue: 1930s geographies of metropolitan consumption / Bronwen Edwards; title: Beyond the boundary of the shop: retail advertising spaces in eighteenth-century provincial England / Victoria Morgan; title: 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; title: Wheeling and dealing; title: "Speciousness is the bucketeers watchword and outrageous effrontery his capital": financial bucket shops in the city of London, c. 18801939 / Dilwyn Porter; title: Buy now  pay later. credit: the mainstay of the retail furniture business? / Clive Edwards; title: Funny money, hidden charges and repossession: working-class experiences of consumption and credit in the inter-war years / Avram Taylor; title: Good salesmanship; title: The customer is always right: change and continuity in British and American department store salesmanship, 19451960 / Joy Cushman; title: The diligent hand maketh rich: commercial advice for retailers in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century England / Elizabeth Anne Rothenberg; title: Interactions of discontent: customers, sales assistants and the state in the German democratic republic, 19701989 / Christina Schröder; title: The view from the shop: window display, the shopper and the formulation of theory / Susan Lomax.