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Whilst there has been much recent scholarly work on retailing
during the early modern period, less is known about how people at
the time perceived retailing, both as onlookers, artists and
commentators, and as participants. Centred on the general theme of
perceptions, the authors address this gap in our knowledge by
looking at a different aspect of consumption. They focus on two
ancillary themes: the first is location and how contemporaries
perceived the settlements in which there were shops; the other is
distance. Pictures, prints, novels, diaries and promotional
literature of the tradespeople themselves provide much of the
evidence. Many of these sources are not new to historians, but they
have not been scrutinized and analysed with the questions in mind
that are posed here. The methodology to be employed has been
developed by Nancy Cox over the last decade, and is used
successfully in her book The Complete Tradesman and in the
compilation of the forthcoming Dictionary of Traded Goods and
Commodities 1550-1800. This book will find a ready market with
scholars concerned with British social and economic history in the
early modern period. Although it is first and foremost a book
written by historians for historians, it nevertheless borrows
concepts and approaches from various disciplines concerned with
theories of consumption, material culture and representational art.
The Complete Tradesman redresses the relative paucity of studies on
the history of retailing before 1800. Based upon extensive research
into diverse trade sources, Cox takes issue with the surprisingly
resilient stereotype of the 'dull' and 'out of date' shopkeeper in
the early modern period, showing that the retailing sector was well
adapted to the social and economic needs of the day and quick to
exploit new opportunities. Chapters cover not only distribution,
shop design, customer relations and networks between tradesmen, but
also attitudes to retailing, official controls, and the response to
novelty. By throwing light on subjects hitherto overlooked and
challenging existing whiggish preoccupations with progress towards
modern retailing systems, this study signals a new approach to the
history of retailing. The focus is placed on assessing how far
tradesmen, especially shopkeepers, satisfied and stimulated
contemporary desires for consumer goods.
Whilst there has been much recent scholarly work on retailing
during the early modern period, less is known about how people at
the time perceived retailing, both as onlookers, artists and
commentators, and as participants. Centred on the general theme of
perceptions, the authors address this gap in our knowledge by
looking at a different aspect of consumption. They focus on two
ancillary themes: the first is location and how contemporaries
perceived the settlements in which there were shops; the other is
distance. Pictures, prints, novels, diaries and promotional
literature of the tradespeople themselves provide much of the
evidence. Many of these sources are not new to historians, but they
have not been scrutinized and analysed with the questions in mind
that are posed here. The methodology to be employed has been
developed by Nancy Cox over the last decade, and is used
successfully in her book The Complete Tradesman and in the
compilation of the forthcoming Dictionary of Traded Goods and
Commodities 1550-1800. This book will find a ready market with
scholars concerned with British social and economic history in the
early modern period. Although it is first and foremost a book
written by historians for historians, it nevertheless borrows
concepts and approaches from various disciplines concerned with
theories of consumption, material culture and representational art.
In this book the author explores the various meanings assigned to
goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were
understood. The first half of the book focuses on these labels and
on mercantile language more broadly; how it was used in trade and
how lexicographers and others approached what, for them, were new
vocabularies. In the second half, the author turns to the goods
themselves, and their relationships with terms such as 'luxury',
'choice' and 'love'; terms that were used as descriptors in
marketing goods. The language of objects is a subject of ongoing
interest and the study of consumables opens up new ways of looking
at the everyday language of the early modern period as well as the
experiences of trade and consumption for both merchant and
consumer.
The Complete Tradesman redresses the relative paucity of studies on
the history of retailing before 1800. Based upon extensive research
into diverse trade sources, Cox takes issue with the surprisingly
resilient stereotype of the 'dull' and 'out of date' shopkeeper in
the early modern period, showing that the retailing sector was well
adapted to the social and economic needs of the day and quick to
exploit new opportunities. Chapters cover not only distribution,
shop design, customer relations and networks between tradesmen, but
also attitudes to retailing, official controls, and the response to
novelty. By throwing light on subjects hitherto overlooked and
challenging existing whiggish preoccupations with progress towards
modern retailing systems, this study signals a new approach to the
history of retailing. The focus is placed on assessing how far
tradesmen, especially shopkeepers, satisfied and stimulated
contemporary desires for consumer goods.
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technologies including the strategic direction of the top directory
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applications and using directories to customize content delivery
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This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
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