With the growing interest in cultures of consumption, this book should be useful to specialists and students in retail history, human geography and social and cultural history."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
A Nation of Shopkeepers is a photographic tribute to these bastions of personal enterprise while they still survive.
"A Nation of Shopkeepers" reflects research on retail history and cultures of consumption. The contributors challenge existing ideas about retail development, showing how, for example, large-scale retailers played a far...
The John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian Library is one of the world's most important collections of printed ephemera. This exhibition catalog focuses on just one of the many subject...
It shows how the rise of home ownership, small landlordism and radical changes to the world of work have increasingly inculcated values of petite-bourgeois individualism; how popular culture has promoted and reproduced values of aspiration ...