| Description |
1 online resource (237 pages) |
| Series |
The History of Retailing and Consumption |
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History of retailing and consumption.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- List of Figure and Tables -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Between the Shop and the Home -- Part One Retail Arenas and the 'Everyday' -- 1 Shopping at First Hand? Mistresses, Servants and Shopping for the Household in Early-Modern England -- 2 'To Families Furnishing Kitchens': Domestic Utensils and their Use in the Eighteenth-Century Home -- 3 Guns, Horses and Stylish Waistcoats? Male Consumer Activity and Domestic Shopping in Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century England -- Part Two Shopping for Identities? -- 4 Liberty and Lifestyle: Shopping for Art and Luxury in Nineteenth-Century London -- 5 'Artistic and Commercial' Japan: Modernity, Authenticity and Japanese Leather Paper -- Part Three Fashioning the Domestic: Making and Re-Making the Home through Consumption -- 6 Desirable Commodity or Practical Necessity? The Sale and Consumption of Second-Hand Furniture, 1750-1900 -- 7 'A Pretty Custom' Updated: From 'Going to Housekeeping' to Bridal Showers in the United States, 1850s-1930s -- Part Four Consumption for the Home as Cultural Practice -- 8 The Milkman always Rang Twice: The Effects of Changed Provisioning on Dutch Domestic Architecture -- 9 From Ground Force to Garden-Making: How Ordinary Gardeners Consume Television Lifestyle Aesthetics -- 10 Taking a Look at the Wild Side of DIY Home Décor -- Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hussey, David
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| ISBN |
9781351953955 |
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1351953958 |
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