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1 online resource : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Reveals how changes in retailing and shopping were central to the broader transformation of consumption and consumer practices, and questions established ideas about the motivations underpinning consumer choices. Offers new perspectives on the link between supply and demand and the motivations underpinning consumer choices. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Ancient and Modern: The Grocery Trade in Early Modern England -- 2. A New World of Goods: Groceries in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 3. From Colony to Counter: Networks of Supply -- 4. Geographies of Selling: The Grocery Trades in Provincial Towns -- 5. Selling Spaces: Display and Storage of Groceries -- 6. Selling Groceries: Service, Credit, and Price -- 7. Exotic, Empire, or Everyday? Advertising Groceries -- 8. Baskets of Goods: Customers and Shopping Practices |
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9. Tea and Cakes: Consuming Groceries10. Cups, Caddies, and Castors: Groceries and Domestic Material Culture -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grocery trade -- England -- History.
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Grocery trade. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Grocers -- England -- History.
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Grocers. |
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Grocery shopping -- England -- History.
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Grocery shopping. |
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Consumption (Economics) -- England -- History.
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Consumption (Economics) |
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Supply and demand -- History.
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Food supply -- History.
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England.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce. |
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Supply and demand. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General. |
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Food supply. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stobart, Jon, 1966- Sugar and spice. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199577927 |
| ISBN |
9780191640025 (electronic book) |
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0191640026 (electronic book) |
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9781283851329 |
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1283851326 |
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9780191744884 (ebook) |
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0191744883 (ebook) |
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9780199577927 |
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0199577927 |
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