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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The American's Shopping Guide in London for 1876
Author: A Guide to American Trade Catalogs, 1744-1900
Author: Lawrence B. RomainePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486264752
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Invaluable listing of rare catalogs selling cars, beekeeper's equipment, clocks, firearms, livestock, clothes, toys, more. Cites catalog's location, size, more.
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.
Classified List of Books in the General Library of the Institute of Jamaica, 1923
Author: Institute of Jamaica. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Shelf Inventory of Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, Prints, Etc
Author: Samuel Jones TildenTrübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Nicolas TrübnerRowell's American Newspaper Directory
Author: George Presbury RowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
Geo. P. Rowell and Co.'s American Newspaper Directory
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
A List of Works on North American Fungi ...
Author: William Gilson FarlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fungi
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association
Author: American Iron and Steel AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iron industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description