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Author Whitlock, Tammy C., 1967-

Title Crime, gender, and consumer culture in nineteenth-century England / Tammy C. Whitlock.

Publication Info. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HF5429.6.G72 E69 2005    Available  ---
Description 244 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series The history of retailing and consumption
History of retailing and consumption.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-235) and index.
Contents Ready money only : small shops and new retail methods -- Vanity fairs : the growth of bazaars and fancy fairs -- 'Mothers beware!' : fraud by the retailer -- The culture of fraud and the female consumer -- Shoplifting in early nineteenth-century England -- Mrs. McGregor's sealskin jacket : female frauds and the art of buying without paying -- Solving the problem of the criminal consumer : women and kleptomania.
Subject Retail trade -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Retail trade.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Consumption (Economics) -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Consumption (Economics)
Women consumers -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Women consumers.
Consumer behavior -- Sex differences -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Consumer behavior -- Sex differences.
Consumer behavior.
Crime -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Crime.
England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Manners and customs.
ISBN 0754652076 alkaline paper