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Zusatztext Stobart offers an important contribution to the field of consumption history. Informationen zum Autor Jon Stobart has published widely on the history of consumption, retailing, and leisure in eighteenth-century England, and has particular interests in the spatiality of consumption and the operation of the second-hand market. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 9: Tea and Cakes: Consuming groceries 10: Cups, Caddies, and Castors: Groceries and domestic material culture Conclusions Bibliography
