1st Edition
Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern England
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 retailing, both as onlookers, artists and commentators, and as participants. Centred on the general theme of perceptions, the authors address this gap in our knowledge by looking at a different aspect of consumption. They focus on two ancillary themes:... Read more
Contents: General Editor's preface; Preface; Prologue; Retail contexts; Visual and literary representations of retailing; Itinerant traders and others; Virtual supply; Place names and fashions; Distance selling: provinces and metropolis; Making shoppers; Access and availability; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dr Nancy Cox is Honorary Research Fellow and Academic Editor/Dictionary Project, Dr Karin Dannehl is a Research Fellow and Executive Editor/Dictionary Project, both at the University of Wolverhampton, UK
’This is an interesting approach to an important subject... The purpose of the authors' argument is to reorient thinking about retailing by focusing on culture, rather than treating it as a branch of economic history. In this they are successful and convincing.’ Renaissance Quarterly
