Shops and shopkeeping in eighteenth-century England /
This original and scholarly study of shopkeeping in eighteenth century England draws on hitherto little used material providing a unique analysis of the pattern of retail trading in England just before the Industrial Revolution.
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Kingston [Ont.] : London :
McGill-Queen's University Press ; Routledge,
1989.
Kingston, Ont. : London : [1989] |
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Table of Contents:
- Response of the retail sector to economic and social changes
- The number and geographical distribution of retail shops
- Functional distribution of shops
- Politics of shopkeeping: shopkeepers vs. hawkers, 1785-9
- Shopkeepers in London and York: analyses of their trade, income, and site
- Number and proportion of principal and petty shopkeepers
- Role of village and back street shops in the household economy of the workers
- Tea dealers: grocers vs back street shops
- Tea dealers of London and York: their number and shop trades
- Geographical distribution of tea dealers in Great Britain at the end of the eighteenth century
- Petty shopkeepers: business practices and customers
- Changes in marketing and sales techniques
- Forces of competition in the retailing of tea.