The History of Retailing and Consumption
About the Book Series
Initially published by Ashgate, Routledge welcomed the History of Retailing and Consumption book series to the fold in 2016. The series aims to explore all aspects of the broad field and to date, themes have included retailing, fashion, design and food with studies spanning the whole gamut of historical eras from ancient times to the twentieth century.
Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Nancy Cox, Karin Dannehl
January 30, 2025
Whilst there has been much recent scholarly work on retailing during the early modern period, less is known about how people at the time perceived retailing, both as onlookers, artists and commentators, and as participants. Centred on the general theme of perceptions, the authors address this gap ...
Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660–1830
1st Edition
By Helen Berry, Jeremy Gregory
July 02, 2020
Historians of the long eighteenth century have recently recognised that this period is central both to the history of cultural production and consumption and to the history of national and regional identity. Yet no book has, as yet, directly engaged with these two areas of interest at the same time...
Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900
1st Edition
By Bert De Munck, Dries Lyna
June 30, 2020
In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything from a loaf of bread to a work of art to a simple haircut, value is expressed in monetary terms and seen as determined primarily by the 'objective' ...
The Development of Marketing Management: The Case of the USA c. 1910-1940
1st Edition
By Kazuo Usui
May 07, 2019
There has been much discussion about the origin of marketing and marketing thought, and whether it was truly American in origin. Nevertheless, it is true that US marketing management thought was very influential throughout the world in the latter half of the twentieth century, becoming dominant ...
Food Hawkers: Selling in the Streets from Antiquity to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Melissa Calaresu, Danielle van den Heuvel
November 08, 2018
Street vendors are ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. They are part of almost any distribution chain, and play an important role in the marketing of consumer goods particularly to poorer customers. Focusing on the food trades, this multi-disciplinary volume explores the dynamics of...
Cultures of Selling: Perspectives on Consumption and Society since 1700
1st Edition
By Laura Ugolini, John Benson
November 06, 2018
The study of consumption and its relationship to cultural and social values has become a vibrant and important field in recent years. Hitherto however, relatively few detailed and full length works on this topic have been published. In what will become a seminal volume, this book examines retail ...
The Expert Consumer: Associations and Professionals in Consumer Society
1st Edition
By Alain Chatriot, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel
October 06, 2017
Recent work has focused on the politics of consumption and its manifestation in a number of situations. This volume extends these debates, providing a tighter focus and contributing to a noticeable gap in the field that numerous scholars are beginning to turn towards: that is, organizations of ...
Furniture-Makers and Consumers in England, 1754–1851: Design as Interaction
1st Edition
By Akiko Shimbo
August 02, 2017
Covering the period from the publication of Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director (1754) to the Great Exhibition (1851), this book analyses the relationships between producer retailers and consumers of furniture and interior design, and explores what effect dialogues ...
Turning Houses into Homes: A History of the Retailing and Consumption of Domestic Furnishings
1st Edition
By Clive Edwards
March 29, 2017
From the earliest times, people have striven to turn their houses into homes through the use of decoration and furnishings, stimulating in turn a major commercial sector dedicated to offering the products and services essential to feed the ever-changing dictates of domestic fashion. Whilst there ...
From Physick to Pharmacology: Five Hundred Years of British Drug Retailing
1st Edition
Edited
By Louise Hill Curth
February 27, 2017
From Physick to Pharmacology addresses the important, albeit neglected history of the distribution and sale of medicinal drugs in England from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. The social history of early medicine and the evolution of British retailing are two areas that have attracted ...
Making, Selling and Wearing Boys' Clothes in Late-Victorian England
1st Edition
By Clare Rose
November 28, 2016
There has been a great deal of recent interest in masculine clothing, examining both its production and consumption, and the ways in which it was used to create individual identities and to build businesses, from 1850 onwards. Drawing upon a wide range of sources this book studies the interaction ...
Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain 1880–1939
1st Edition
By Laura Ugolini
November 10, 2016
Despite increasing academic interest in both the study of masculinity and the history of consumption, there are still few published studies that bring together both concerns. By investigating the changing nature of the retailing of menswear, this book illuminates wider aspects of masculine identity...