Shops and Shopping 1800-1914

Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes

by: Alison Adburgham

Shops and Shopping 1800-1914
Author: Alison Adburgham

Publisher: Faber Finds

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Publication date: 20 September 2012

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ISBN: 057129751X ISBN 13: 9780571297511

Shops and Shopping 1800-1914 by Alison Adburgham

A contribution to the social history of retail selling. It charts the Victorian origins and subsequent ascent of the 'department store', a mode of shopping that offered the customer an enviable selection of wares, a fixed price, and a recreational browsing experience. Top page

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First published in 1964, Alison Adburgham's "Shops and Shopping, 1880-1914: Where and in What Matter the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes" is a rightly celebrated and groundbreaking contribution to the social history of retail selling. Adburgham charts the Victorian origins and subsequent ascent of the 'department store', a mode of shopping that offered the customer an enviable selection of wares, a fixed price, and a recreational browsing experience that began with goods placed temptingly behind plate-glass and continued through shops carefully arranged so that customers might wander. These great emporia changed the labours and livelihoods of craftspeople and small shop-keepers, enhanced the reputation of England's capital and regional cities, and even altered the social climate of England. Immaculately researched from primary sources, "Shops and Shopping" is one of the key texts in the scholarly analysis of early mass consumer culture. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Faber Finds

City: London

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Age recommended: General/trade

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 381.10941

Departments: Retail sector;

Record updated at: 28 September, 2012 time: 04:39


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