Mail order retailing in Britain : a business and social history / Richard Coopey, Sean O'Connell, an...
Mail order retailing in Britain : a business and social history / Richard Coopey, Sean O'Connell, an...
Mail order retailing in Britain : a business and social history / Richard Coopey, Sean O'Connell, and Dilwyn Porter.
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Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
Call Numbers
N381.142/5
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
General mail order retailing in Britain : origins and development till 1939. The origins of mail order retailing. General mail order retailing in Britain before 1914. Mail order houses during the First World War. The expansion of mail order retailing in the 1920s. Mail order's corporate landscape tr...
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Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2005.
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Summary
"This book traces the rise of firms including Kay and Co., Grattan, Empire Stores and Littlewoods. It examines the ways in which these firms created and exploited social networks through the agency system and credit provision among the British working class. The book also traces the origins of internet-based home shopping in the UK"--Provided by pu...
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Mail order retailing in Britain : a business and social history / Richard Coopey, Sean O'Connell, and Dilwyn Porter.
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N381.142/5
Record Identifier
74VKPQ68MvAM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPQ68MvAM
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ISBN
0198296509 (alk. paper)
9780198296508 (alk. paper)
DDC
381.1420941
MMS ID
991019724869702626
