Buying for the home
Subtitle: shopping for the domestic from the seventeenth century to the present
By: edited by David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby.
Contributors: Hussey, D. E.; Ponsonby, Margaret, 1952-
Series: The history of retailing and consumption
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780754658078
Subjects: Home economics -- History; England -- Social life and customs; United States -- Social life and customs
Description: This collection of essays explores connections between homemakers and retailers, between individual customers and manufacturers, and between the taste and outlooks of real householders and the published advice of 'tastemakers' and 'legislators' in books and magazines.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.