Nineteenth-century England witnessed the birth of capitalist consumerism. Early department stores, shopping arcades and provision shops of all kinds proliferated from the start of the Victorian period, testimony to greater diffusion of consumer goods. However, while the better off enjoyed having more material things, masses of the population were wanting even the basic necessities of life during the 'Hungry Forties' and well beyond. Based on a wealth of contemporary evidence and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Wanting and having focuses particularly on the making of the working-class consumer in order to shed new light on key areas of major historical interest, including Chartism, the Anti-Corn Law League, the New Poor Law, popular ...
The developments of the English Revolution and of the British Empire expedited commerce and transfor...
In capitalist societies, consumers use a range of goods mass produced under conditions of they know ...
This dissertation focuses on women, consumer culture, and crime in England in the early to later nin...
Peter Gurney, Wanting and Having: Popular Politics and Liberal Consumerism in England, 1830–70, Man...
This article attempts to reconnect the culture with the politics of the campaign for free trade thro...
It is commonly accepted that the consumer is now centre stage in modern Britain, rather than the wor...
Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England provides an accessible introduction to the culture of...
The developments that occurred as a result of the Industrial Revolution and during the British Empir...
This article argues for an alternative response to the 'consumer society' hypothesis for eighteenth-...
Victorian society depended on the maintenance of positive affective bonds between individuals and be...
Objects and commodities have frequently been studied to assess their position within consumer - or m...
In the century following the American Revolution, culturally powerful middle-class citizens in the n...
Purpose. This paper aims to reconsider and reframe the relationship between retail and consumer revo...
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the a...
© 2018 Edinburgh University Press.Consumption has served as one of the key explanatory frameworks fo...
The developments of the English Revolution and of the British Empire expedited commerce and transfor...
In capitalist societies, consumers use a range of goods mass produced under conditions of they know ...
This dissertation focuses on women, consumer culture, and crime in England in the early to later nin...
Peter Gurney, Wanting and Having: Popular Politics and Liberal Consumerism in England, 1830–70, Man...
This article attempts to reconnect the culture with the politics of the campaign for free trade thro...
It is commonly accepted that the consumer is now centre stage in modern Britain, rather than the wor...
Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England provides an accessible introduction to the culture of...
The developments that occurred as a result of the Industrial Revolution and during the British Empir...
This article argues for an alternative response to the 'consumer society' hypothesis for eighteenth-...
Victorian society depended on the maintenance of positive affective bonds between individuals and be...
Objects and commodities have frequently been studied to assess their position within consumer - or m...
In the century following the American Revolution, culturally powerful middle-class citizens in the n...
Purpose. This paper aims to reconsider and reframe the relationship between retail and consumer revo...
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the a...
© 2018 Edinburgh University Press.Consumption has served as one of the key explanatory frameworks fo...
The developments of the English Revolution and of the British Empire expedited commerce and transfor...
In capitalist societies, consumers use a range of goods mass produced under conditions of they know ...
This dissertation focuses on women, consumer culture, and crime in England in the early to later nin...