Rachel Bowlby (University Coll Professor of Comparative Literature

Back to the Shops

The High Street in History and the Future

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Produktbeschreibung

Over time, shops have occupied radically different places in cultural arguments and everyday lives. Back to the Shops offers a set of short, often surprising chapters, each one a window into a different shop type or mode of selling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780198815914
• ISBN-10: 0198815913
• Artikelnr.: 62434152

Autorenporträt

Rachel Bowlby teaches courses on the history and theory of consumer culture at University College London, where she is Professor of Comparative Literature. Previous books include Just Looking (on department stores), Shopping with Freud, and Carried Away (on supermarkets).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
SETTINGS
1 Chain stores
2 Convenience
3 Fixed prices
4 Local shops
5 Mail order
6 Markets
7 Self-service and supermarkets
8 Shopping centres
9 Shop windows
10 Sources
ROLES
11 Collections
12 Counters
13 Credit and credibility
14 Customer loyalty
15 Motor vans and motor buses
16 Nineteenth-century bazaars
17 Pedlars
18 Saturday nights and Sundays
19 Scenes of shopping
20 Shopworkers and shopkeepers
SPECIALITIES
21 Bakers
22 Butchers
23 Chemists
24 Florists
25 Furniture shops
26 Haberdashery
27 Household goods
28 Jewellers
29 Sweet shops
30 Umbrella shops
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Index