TRANSFORMATIONS OF RETAILING IN EUROPE AFTER 1945
Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945
Edited by
RALPH JESSEN
University of Cologne, Germany
LYDIA LANGER
University of Cologne, Germany
First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Transformations of retailing in Europe after 1945. -- (The
history of retailing and consumption)
1. Retail trade--Europe--History--20th century.
2. Retail trade--Technological innovations--Europe--
History--20th century. 3. Consumption (Economics)--
Europe--History--20th century.
I. Series II. Jessen, Ralph. III. Nembach-Langer, Lydia.
381.109409045-dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jessen, Ralph.
Transformations of retailing in Europe after 1945 / Ralph Jessen and Lydia Nembach-Langer.
p. cm. -- (The history of retailing and consumption)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-2444-4 (hardcover) -- ISBN
1. Retail trade--Europe--History--20th century. I. Nembach-Langer, Lydia. II. Title.
HF5429.6.E9J47 2012
381.109409045--dc23
2012007273
ISBN 9781409424444 (hbk)
Contents
Ralph Jessen and Lydia Langer
Frank Trentmann
Gareth Shaw, Adrian Bailey, Andrew Alexander, Dawn Nell and Jane Hamlett
Emanuela Scarpellini
Lydia Langer
Jan Logemann
Angelika Epple
Richard Coopey
Elizabeth Heineman
Ralf Banken
Stefan Schwarzkopf
Karin Zachmann
Terje Finstad
Annika Menke
The History of Retailing and Consumption General Editors Preface
It is increasingly recognized 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
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on the Contributors
Andrew Alexander is Professor of Retail Management in the School of Management at the University of Surrey, UK. His research interests include business and consumer history, the marketing and management of retail locations, and international retailing. His recent work on the history of retailing has been widely published, including in Environment and Planning A (2008, 2010), Journal of Historical Research in Marketing (2010), Enterprise and Society (2009), and Business History (2008).
Adrian Bailey is a Lecturer in Tourism Management at the University of Exeter. He is the Director of the MSc in Tourism, Development and Policy, and lectures on retail history in a joint venture with The Co-operative Group. His most recent research, funded by the Business Archives Council, explores the relationship between Cadbury and supermarket retailers following the abolition of resale price maintenance legislation in the 1960s.
Ralf Banken is teaching at the Department for Economic History at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He has extensively published on the history of industrialization in the Saar region, the economic history of Nazi Germany, the history of the international industrial gases industry and the history of consumption in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Richard Coopey is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Welsh History at Aberystwyth University, UK. He is interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century social, economic and environmental history and has published on a broad range of topics such as the history of information technology policy, the political economy of water and the history of mail order retailing in Britain since 1890.
Angelika Epple is Professor of Modern History at Bielefeld University, Germany. She is interested in the theory of history and the history of globalization, as well as the history of consumption. Her recently published book, Das Unternehmen Stollwerck. Eine Mikrogeschichte der Globalisierung (Frankfurt: Campus, 2010), is a case study on a chocolate manufacturer and uses a micro-historical approach to investigate processes of globalization.
Terje Finstad is a PhD student at the Department for Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. His PhD thesis deals with the building of a Norwegian cold chain between 1940 and 1970. Before starting his PhD he finished a Masters thesis dealing with the construction of genetically modified salmon in Norway in the 1980s.
Jane Hamlett is Lecturer in Modern British History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She previously worked as a researcher on the AHRC Reconstructing Consumer Landscapes Project at the University of Surrey. She has published Material Relations: Domestic Interiors and Middle-Class Families in England, 18501910 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010). Her research has also appeared in Gender and History, The Journal of Family History, Womens History Review and The Journal of Consumer Culture. She is currently working on the ESRC research project At Home in the Institution? Asylum, School and Lodging House Interiors in South East England, 18451914.
Elizabeth Heineman is Associate Professor in the Department of History and in the Department of Gender, Womens and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa, USA. Her past research has examined gender, war and memory in Germany; welfare states in comparative perspective (fascist, communist and democratic); and the significance of marital status for women. Her most recent publications include Before Porn was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011) and, as editor, Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights
