While there are many reasons that people band together to take political action, one of the most basic (and least studied) is hunger. In this book, Bohstedt (History {emer.], University of Tennessee e
After World War II, structures, practices and the culture of retailing in most West European countries went through a period of rapid change. The post-war economic boom, the emergence of a mass consum
The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century represents a new synthesis of gender history and material culture studies. It seeks to analyse the lives and cultural expressio
Cox (U. of Wolverhampton) discusses retailing throughout the early modern period, challenging misconceptions concerning the origins of the industry and analyzing marketing techniques. She considers t
Three decades of research into retailing in England from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries has established a seemingly clear narrative: fixed shops were widespread from an early date; 'modern' m
Addressing the subject of clothing in relation to such fundamental issues as national identity, social distinction, gender, the body, religion and politics, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650 provides a spri
The first thirty years of the twentieth century was a key period in the development of Japanese society, during which it began to face directly the political, economic and cultural power of the West i
Historians of medicine, economists, and other scholars examine how the nature of the British drug market has changed from the Elizabethan era to the present. From remedies prepared at home with natura
