Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern EnglandAshgate, 2007 - 214 pagine 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. |
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Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern England Nancy C. Cox,Karin Dannehl Anteprima non disponibile - 2017 |
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1st edn Aldershot attractive Birmingham bought Britain British catalogue Celia Fiennes centres chapmen chapter chiefly to picturesque commodities complete tradesman concept consumer society consumption customers descriptors DIARIES Dictionary Project distance early-modern period early-modern retailing economic eighteenth century England English entry evidence example exchange fashion fixed-shop retailers Gareth Shaw glass handbill historians Humphry Repton Ibid ideas images important industrial Italian Johanna Schopenhauer landscape less London Manchester manufacture material culture McKendrick meaning merchants modern Nancy Cox nation of shopkeepers nineteenth objects Oxford pedlars perceptions Plate printed promotional literature provincial Pyne reader respectively retailing activity rural Samuel Pepys selling seventeenth century shopkeepers shopper Shrewsbury Shropshire Soap social Spufford Stone & Company suggests town trade TRADECARDS tradespeople University of Wolverhampton Venice village virtual wares William Gilpin York