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Author Stobart, Jon, 1966-

Title Sugar and spice : grocers and groceries in provincial England, 1650-1830 / by Jon Stobart
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Ancient and Modern: The Grocery Trade in Early Modern England -- 2. A New World of Goods: Groceries in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 3. From Colony to Counter: Networks of Supply -- 4. Geographies of Selling: The Grocery Trades in Provincial Towns -- 5. Selling Spaces: Display and Storage of Groceries -- 6. Selling Groceries: Service, Credit, and Price -- 7. Exotic, Empire, or Everyday? Advertising Groceries -- 8. Baskets of Goods: Customers and Shopping Practices
9. Tea and Cakes: Consuming Groceries10. Cups, Caddies, and Castors: Groceries and Domestic Material Culture -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary Reveals how changes in retailing and shopping were central to the broader transformation of consumption and consumer practices, and questions established ideas about the motivations underpinning consumer choices. Offers new perspectives on the link between supply and demand and the motivations underpinning consumer choices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Grocery trade -- England -- History
Grocers -- England -- History
Grocery shopping -- England -- History
Consumption (Economics) -- England -- History
Supply and demand -- History
Food supply -- History
Food Supply -- history
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
Consumption (Economics)
Food supply
Grocers
Grocery shopping
Grocery trade
Supply and demand
SUBJECT England. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82068148
Subject England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191640025
0191640026
9781283851329
1283851326
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