Author: John TimbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Clubs and Club Life in London
Author: John TimbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Clubs and Club Life in London
Author: John TimbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Clubs and Club Life in London
Author: John TimbsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382811294
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 1
Author: Markman EllisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351568728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine.
Club life of London
Author: John TimbsBulletin
Author: Hyde Park Public Library (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Trenton Free Public Library (Trenton, N.J.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Shopping for Pleasure
Author: Erika RappaportPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400843537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In Shopping for Pleasure, Erika Rappaport reconstructs London's Victorian and Edwardian West End as an entertainment and retail center. In this neighborhood of stately homes, royal palaces, and spacious parks and squares, a dramatic transformation unfolded that ultimately changed the meaning of femininity and the lives of women, shaping their experience of modernity. Rappaport illuminates the various forces of the period that encouraged and discouraged women's enjoyment of public life and particularly shows how shopping came to be seen as the quintessential leisure activity for middle- and upper-class women. Through extensive histories of department stores, women's magazines, clubs, teashops, restaurants, and the theater as interwoven sites of consumption, Shopping for Pleasure uncovers how a new female urban culture emerged before and after the turn of the twentieth century. Moving beyond the question of whether shopping promoted or limited women's freedom, the author draws on diverse sources to explore how business practices, legal decisions, and cultural changes affected women in the market. In particular, she focuses on how and why stores presented themselves as pleasurable, secure places for the urban woman, in some cases defining themselves as instrumental to civic improvement and women's emancipation. Rappaport also considers such influences as merchandizing strategies, credit policies, changes in public transportation, feminism, and the financial balance of power within the home. Shopping for Pleasure is thus both a social and cultural history of the West End, but on a broader scale it reveals the essential interplay between the rise of consumer society, the birth of modern femininity, and the making of contemporary London.
A Catalogue of the Library
Author: Metropolitan Club (Washington, D.C.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
General Catalogue of ... Free Public Library
Author: Auckland Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description