The investigation of demand as a significant economic factor has progressed to a more detailed appraisal of consumer practice. However, in this area of study there has been no attention paid to the second-hand trade and related consumption of clothing. Demand can best be seen as two-tiered. The first level of demand for new articles has up to this time obscured the wide trade in used apparel, the extensive market in second-hand goods. An examination of consumerism cannot be complete without taking into account the role played by the second-hand trade, the manner in which goods were used and dispersed throughout the nation. The implications of this trade to the rise of popular consumerism must be considered. Related questions that arise incl...
Consumption is often cited as a meta-narrative for historical change. The eighteenth century has con...
© 2018 Edinburgh University Press.Consumption has served as one of the key explanatory frameworks fo...
This article argues for an alternative response to the 'consumer society' hypothesis for eighteenth-...
The author discusses new approaches arising out of the recent recognition of a lively con-sumer mark...
This is a study of the cultural problem of consumerism. It examines the complex, rich, and multi-var...
The impact of burgeoning consumerism and a new ‘world of goods’ has been well established in scholar...
Drawing on a study of historical national accounts and statistics, this article shows that a growing...
Historians of consumption have placed great emphasis on the growing importance of fashion as a stimu...
Textiles are a key component of the industrial, industrious and consumer revolutions, which are seen...
An issue central to the history oftextiles is how and with what consequences the cultural significan...
Eighteenth-century consumption is often characterised in terms of an expanding world of goods, one t...
Consumption has long been a key component of the historiography of Britain's industrial revolution. ...
The factors lying behind consumption, the choices, the stimulus and the complexities of satisfaction...
Purpose. This paper aims to reconsider and reframe the relationship between retail and consumer revo...
The British market has until now received little of the credit due it as the chief support of the co...
Consumption is often cited as a meta-narrative for historical change. The eighteenth century has con...
© 2018 Edinburgh University Press.Consumption has served as one of the key explanatory frameworks fo...
This article argues for an alternative response to the 'consumer society' hypothesis for eighteenth-...
The author discusses new approaches arising out of the recent recognition of a lively con-sumer mark...
This is a study of the cultural problem of consumerism. It examines the complex, rich, and multi-var...
The impact of burgeoning consumerism and a new ‘world of goods’ has been well established in scholar...
Drawing on a study of historical national accounts and statistics, this article shows that a growing...
Historians of consumption have placed great emphasis on the growing importance of fashion as a stimu...
Textiles are a key component of the industrial, industrious and consumer revolutions, which are seen...
An issue central to the history oftextiles is how and with what consequences the cultural significan...
Eighteenth-century consumption is often characterised in terms of an expanding world of goods, one t...
Consumption has long been a key component of the historiography of Britain's industrial revolution. ...
The factors lying behind consumption, the choices, the stimulus and the complexities of satisfaction...
Purpose. This paper aims to reconsider and reframe the relationship between retail and consumer revo...
The British market has until now received little of the credit due it as the chief support of the co...
Consumption is often cited as a meta-narrative for historical change. The eighteenth century has con...
© 2018 Edinburgh University Press.Consumption has served as one of the key explanatory frameworks fo...
This article argues for an alternative response to the 'consumer society' hypothesis for eighteenth-...