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Across Europe, the Early Modern period was marked by political, religious and cultural upheaval, and saw the emergence of the first global economy, developments which profoundly impacted how people shopped and what they were able to buy. This volume engages with the key debates around continuity and change in consumer behavior in the ''long 16th century'' and the ways in which shopping became an educational and exciting act for many women, men and children across the social spectrum: shops and market stalls were filled with an increasingly wide range of goods made by skilled craftspeople and transported by merchants making evermore ambitious and lucrative journeys across the world. Even servants and the poor were exposed to these new things, for they could consume by eye and ear what they could not afford to take home in material form. Although they did not yet have a word for the activity of "shopping," in this period men and women came to understand that this activity was more than a functional act to acquire necessities. presents an overview of the period with themes addressing practices and processes; spaces and places; shoppers and identities; luxury and everyday; home and family; visual and literary representations; reputation, trust and credit; and governance, regulation and the state.>
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Notes on Contributors
Series Preface, Jon Stobart
Introduction, Tim Reinke-Williams
1. Practices and Processes, Bruno Blondé, Julie De Groot and Peter Stabel
2. Spaces and Places, Nancy Cox and Tim Reinke-Williams
3. Shoppers and Identities, Ian W. Archer
4. Luxury and Everyday, Katherine M. Tycz
5. Home and Family, Maria Cannon
6. Visual and Literary Representations, Sophie Pitman
7. Reputation, Trust and Credit, James E. Shaw
8. Governance, Regulation and the State, Aaron Allen
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Erika D. Rappaport is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her PhD from Rutgers University in 1993. Rappaport is the author of the award-winning Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End (Princeton 2000) and numerous articles and essays on the history of gender, urban and consumer culture in Victorian and Edwardian England. She is completing a study of British consumer culture from the 17th to the 20th century, which uses tea as a lens to examine how British imperial businesses shaped the modern global economy and its culture. This project is titled, An Acquired Taste: Tea, the British Empire, and the Making of a Global Consumer Culture. Rappaport is also currently the Modern Britain and Ireland section editor of the on-line journal, History Compass, on the editorial board of Victorian Review, and will become an associate editor of the Journal of British Studies in 2014.Jon Stobart, FRHS, is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and the editor of The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900 (Bloomsbury, 2020), A Taste for Luxury (Bloomsbury, 2017) with Johanna Ilmakunnas, General Editor of A Cultural History of Shopping, 6 volumes (Bloomsbury, 2022), and co-editor, with Christopher J. Berry, of A Cultural History of Luxury in the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). He is also editor of Global Goods and the Country House (2023), author of Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Country House (2022) and co-author of Consumption and the Country House (2016).
Summary
This volume charts the development of shopping as a cultural practice in the years between 1450 and 1650.
