BUYING FOR THE HOME
In memory of Judy Attfield
Buying for the Home
Shopping for the Domestic from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Edited by
DAVID HUSSEY AND MARGARET PONSONBY
University of Wolverhampton, UK
First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Buying for the home : shopping for the domestic from the seventeenth century to the present. (The history of retailing and consumption)
1. Home economics History 2. England Social life and customs 3. United States Social life and customs
I. Hussey, D. P. (David P.) II. Ponsonby, Margaret, 1952
640.9
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Buying for the home : shopping for the domestic from the seventeenth century to the present / edited by David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby.
p. cm.(The history of retailing and consumption)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-5807-8 (alk. paper)
1. Home economicsHistory. 2. EnglandSocial life and customs. 3. United StatesSocial life and customs. I. Hussey, D. P. (David P.) II. Ponsonby, Margaret, 1952
TX15.B985 2008
640dc22
2007044794
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-5807-8 (hbk)
Contents
David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby
Claire Walsh
Karin Dannehl
David Hussey
Sonia Ashmore
Yasuko Suga
Clive Edwards and Margaret Ponsonby
Shirley Teresa Wajda
Irene Cieraad
Lisa Taylor
Judy Attfield
The History of Retailing and Consumption
General Editors Preface
It is increasingly recognised that retail systems and changes in the patterns of consumption play crucial roles in the development and societal structure of economies. Such recognition has led to renewed interest in the changing nature of retail distribution and the rise of consumer society from a wide range of academic disciplines. The aim of this multidisciplinary series is to provide a forum of publications that explore the history of retailing and consumption.
Gareth Shaw, University of Exeter, UK
Dr Claire Walsh is Associate Lecturer in the Humanities Department at the Open University. She has published on shop design, retailing and advertising in the early modern period, including The newness of the department store: a view from the eighteenth century, in Geoffrey Crossick and Serge Jaumain (eds), Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store 18501939 (Ashgate, 1999) and Social Meaning and Social Space in the Shopping Galleries of Early-Modern London, in John Benson and Laura Ugolini (eds), A Nation of Shopkeepers: A History of Retailing in Britain 15502000 (I.B. Tauris, 2003). She is currently completing a book on the practices, social relations and sites of shopping in early modern London.
Dr Karin Dannehl is a Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton. She is currently working on the Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities, 15501820 (with Dr Nancy Cox) the first edition of which was published by British History Online in 2007. Her doctoral research, A Life Cycle Study of Eighteenth-Century Metal Cooking Vessels: A Reflexive Approach (unpublished PhD thesis, Wolverhampton, 2005), focuses on metal hollowware, investigating eighteenth-century material culture through a mundane object of use, and approaching its analysis via a life cycle model. Her book, Perceptions of Early-Modern Retailing, with Dr Cox, was published by Ashgate in 2007.
Dr David Hussey is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Wolverhampton. He has published widely on commerce and society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Coastal and River Trade in Pre-Industrial England (Exeter University Press, 2000) and is currently working on masculinity and consumption. His research and teaching interests encompass consumption, sexuality and crime in the long eighteenth century.
Dr Sonia Ashmore is currently a Research Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, studying the museums nineteenth century collections of Indian textiles as part of a broader ESRC funded project, Fashioning Diaspora Space, jointly with Royal Holloway University of London. Her main research interests are in nineteenth-century cultural exchange. Recent publications include contributions to C. Breward and D. Gilbert (eds), Fashions World Cities (Oxford: Berg, 2006); C. Breward, D. Gilbert and J. Lister (eds), Sixties Fashion (London: V&A, 2006 and Tokyo: Blues Interactions 2006) and to the V&As Sixties Fashion exhibition website.
Dr Yasuko Suga is Associate Professor at Tsuda College. Her publications include Purgatory of Taste or Projector of Industrial Britain? The British Institute of Industrial Art, Journal of Design History, 16/2 (2003) and Designing the Morality of Consumption: Chamber of Horrors at the Museum of Ornamental Art, 185253, Design Issues, 20/4 (2004). Her current research concentrates upon the production and consumption of Japanese domestic goods for export. Her book, The Politics of Beauty and Utility: British Society and Design, was published in Japanese in 2005.
Dr Clive Edwards is Reader in Design History at Loughborough University. He has published widely on furniture history and technology, interiors and textiles and has a particular interest in retailing and the subsequent consumption of domestic furnishings. His work has appeared in such academic journals as Journal of Design History, Furniture History, Textile History and History of Technology. His most recent major publications include the Encyclopaedia of Furniture Making Materials, Trades and Techniques (Ashgate, 2000) and Turning Houses into Homes (Ashgate, 2005).
Dr Margaret Ponsonby is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies/History at the University of Wolverhampton. Her research focuses on the acquisition and use of furniture and furnishings in the home, 17501850. Her article, Ideals, Reality and Meaning: Homemaking in England in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Journal of Design History, 16/3 (2003), deals with the methodology of using inventories qualitatively. Her book, Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 17501850
