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Cultures of selling : perspectives on consumption and society since 1700
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Cultures of selling : perspectives on consumption and society since 1700

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Introduction / John Benson and Laura Ugolini
Itineraries and spaces of selling
West End shopping with Vogue : 1930s geographies of metropolitan consumption / Bronwen Edwards
Beyond the boundary of the shop : retail advertising spaces in eighteenth-century provincial England / Victoria Morgan
Creating new spaces of food consumption : the rise of mass catering and the activities of the Aerated Bread Company / Gareth Shaw, Louise Curth and Andrew Alexander
Wheeling and dealing
'Speciousness is the bucketeer's watchword and outrageous effrontery his capital' : financial bucket shops in the city of London, c. 1880-1939 / Dilwyn Porter
Buy now, pay later : credit, the mainstay of the retail furniture business? / Clive Edwards
'Funny money,' hidden charges and repossession : working-class experiences of consumption and credit in the inter-war years / Avram Taylor
Good salesmanship
'The customer is always right' : change and continuity in British and American department store salesmanship, 1945-1960 / Joy Cushman
'The diligent hand maketh rich' : commercial advice for retailers in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England / Elizabeth Anne Rothenberg
Interactions of discontent : customers, sales assistants and the state in the German Democratic Republic, 1970-1989 / Christina Schröder
The view from the shop : window display, the shopper and the formulation of theory / Susan Lomax.

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