Buying for the Home: Shopping for the Domestic from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

by David E. Hussey

Book Overview

Buying for the Home examines how strategies of retailers were both arbitrated by, and negotiated through the actions and desires of the homemaker as a consumer in early-modern, modern and post-modern society. Drawing on a wide selection of interdisciplinary work from established scholars and new researchers, the volume is organised around four key themes: retail arenas and the everyday; identity and lifestyle; fashioning domestic space; and cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138246603
• ISBN13: 9781138246607
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"