The emergence of modern retailing, 1750-1950 / edited by Nicholas Alexander and Gary Akehurst.

Other author Alexander, Nicholas, 1960-
Other author Akehurst, Gary, 1951-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 1999.
Description173 pages : illustrations, 3 maps ; 23 cm
Subjects
Retail trade--History.
Retail trade--Great Britain. --History.

Contents Introduction : the emergence of modern retailing, 1750-1950 / Nicholas Alexander and Gary Akehurst -- Consumer-owned community flour and bread societies in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Joshua Bamfield -- Changes in provincial retail practice during the eighteenth century, with particular reference to central-southern England / Christina Fowler -- Stocking the store : co-operative retailers in north-east England and systems of wholesale supply, circa 1860-77 / Martin Purvis -- Structural and spatial trends in British retailing : the importance of firm-level studies / Gareth Shaw ... [et al.] -- 'Municipal store' : adaptation and development in the retail markets of nineteenth-century urban Lancashire / Deborah Hodson -- Retailing history as economic and cultural history : strategies of survival by specialist tobacconists in the mass market / Matthew Hilton -- Fascist 'disciplining' of the Italian retail sector, 1922-40 / Jonathan Morris.
General note"This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue of Business History (ISSN 0007-6791), Vol. 40, No. 4 (October 1998)"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other title Business history (London, England). Special number.
LCCN 98025283
ISBN0714649228 (hardcover)
ISBN0714644811 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HF5429 .E455 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold