A Nation of Shopkeepers :Retailing in Britain 1550-2000
A Nation of Shopkeepers :Retailing in Britain 1550-2000
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Published:
21 November, 2002
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"A Nation of Shopkeepers" reflects research on retail history and cultures of consumption. The contributors challenge existing ideas about retail development, showing how, for example, large-scale retailers played a far lesser role in the development of the modern city that is generally thought, and how the success of department stores was determined less by "entrepreneurial" spirit and more by the unforseen consequences of legislation. With the growing interest in cultures of consumption, this book should be useful to specialists and students in retail history, human geography and social and cultural history.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781860647086 |
| ISBN10 | 1860647081 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format | paperback |
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"Innovative research on diverse aspects of British retail history... Uniformly high-quality scholarship... should attract a wide interest" -Enterprise and Society Journal
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Author's Bio
John Benson is Professor of History at the University of Wolverhampton. Laura Ugolini is Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton.