Sugar and Spice: Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England, 1650-1830
Author:   Jon Stobart (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Northampton)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198795964


Pages:   318
Publication Date:   10 November 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Jon Stobart (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Northampton)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.484kg
ISBN:  

9780198795964


ISBN 10:   0198795963
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   10 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Ancient and Modern: The grocery trade in early-modern England 2: A New World of Goods: Groceries in the long eighteenth century 3: From Colony to Counter: Networks of supply 4: Geographies of Selling: The grocery trades in provincial towns 5: Selling Spaces: Display and storage of groceries 6: Selling Groceries: Service, credit, and price 7: Exotic, Empire, or Everyday? Advertising groceries 8: Baskets of Goods: Customers and shopping practices 9: Tea and Cakes: Consuming groceries 10: Cups, Caddies, and Castors: Groceries and domestic material culture Conclusions Bibliography

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At a time when the fascination with all aspects of food, from production to consumption, has never been stronger, this is a welcome publication, set to earn a place among the most useful recent books on the history of food. R. M. Healey, Times Literary Supplement Stobart offers an important contribution to the field of consumption history. Kate Smith, Reviews in History


At a time when the fascination with all aspects of food, from production to consumption, has never been stronger, this is a welcome publication, set to earn a place among the most useful recent books on the history of food. * R. M. Healey, Times Literary Supplement * Stobart offers an important contribution to the field of consumption history. * Kate Smith, Reviews in History *


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Jon Stobart has published widely on the history of consumption, retailing, and leisure in eighteenth-century England, and has particular interests in the spatiality of consumption and the operation of the second-hand market.

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