Margaret Ponsonby

Buying for the Home

Shopping for the Domestic from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Herausgeber: Hussey, David

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Produktbeschreibung

Buying for the Home examines how strategies of retailers were both arbitrated by, and negotiated through the actions and desires of the homemaker as a consumer in early-modern, modern and post-modern society. Drawing on a wide selection of interdisciplinary work from established scholars and new researchers, the volume is organised around four key themes: retail arenas and the everyday; identity and lifestyle; fashioning domestic space; and cultural practice. Through ten linked case studies, Buying for the Home forces us to consider the fractured space that existed between the world of goods and the middle- and working-class home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780754658078
• ISBN-10: 0754658074
• Artikelnr.: 45540184

Autorenporträt

David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby are both based in the Department of History at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction: between the shop and the home, David
Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby; Part 1 Retail Areas and the 'Everyday':
Shopping at 1st hand? Mistresses, servants and shopping for the household
in early modern England, Claire Walsh; 'To families furnishing kitchens':
domestic utensils and their use in the 18th-century home, Karin Dannehl;
Guns, horses and stylish waistcoats? Male consumer activity and domestic
shopping in late-18th- and early-19th-century England, David Hussey. Part 2
Shopping for Identities?: Liberty and lifestyle: shopping for art and
luxury in 19th-century London, Sonia Ashmore; 'Artistic and commercial'
Japan: modernity, authenticity and Japanese leather, Yasuko Suga. Part 3
Fashioning the Domestic: Making and Re-Making the Home through Consumption:
Desirable commodity or practical necessity? The sale and consumption of
2nd-hand furniture, 1750-1900, Clive Edwards and Margaret Ponsonby ; 'A
pretty custom' updated: from 'going to housekeeping' to bridal showers in
the United States, 1850s-1930s, Shirley Teresa Wajda. Part 4 Consumption
for the Home as Cultural Practice: The milkman always rang twice: the
effects of changed provisioning on Dutch domestic architecture, Irene
Cieraad; From Ground Force to garden-making: how ordinary gardeners consume
television lifestyle aesthetics, Lisa Taylor; Taking a look at the wild
side of diy home décor, Judy Attfield; Index.