Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern England
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A01=Nancy Cox
Alison Adburgham
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Aris’s Birmingham Gazette
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Author_Nancy Cox
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British economic history
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Complete Tradesman
consumption theory
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Dictionary Project
Distance Retailing
Distance Selling
Early Modern Advertising
early modern trade networks
Eighteenth Century Advertising
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Fixed Shop Retailers
Great Reclothing
historical retail consumer attitudes
Itinerant Traders
Johanna Schopenhauer
Margaret Spufford
material culture studies
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Nineteenth Century Department Stores
OED Online
Petty Chapman
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Picturesque Beauty
Picturesque Eye
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Provincial Shopkeepers
Rich Goods
Sarah Fell
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William Stout
Young Man
Zachary Zeal
Product details
- ISBN 9780754637714
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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: the first is location and how contemporaries perceived the settlements in which there were shops; the other is distance. Pictures, prints, novels, diaries and promotional literature of the tradespeople themselves provide much of the evidence. Many of these sources are not new to historians, but they have not been scrutinized and analysed with the questions in mind that are posed here. The methodology to be employed has been developed by Nancy Cox over the last decade, and is used successfully in her book The Complete Tradesman and in the compilation of the forthcoming Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities 1550-1800. This book will find a ready market with scholars concerned with British social and economic history in the early modern period. Although it is first and foremost a book written by historians for historians, it nevertheless borrows concepts and approaches from various disciplines concerned with theories of consumption, material culture and representational art.
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
