Demons of domesticity : women and the English gas industry, 1889-1939 / Anne Clendinning.
Demons of domesticity : women and the English gas industry, 1889-1939 / Anne Clendinning.
Demons of domesticity : women and the English gas industry, 1889-1939 / Anne Clendinning.
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Publisher
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.
Call Numbers
N338.47683/ 1
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xvii, 352 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. The Victorian kitchen revolutionised -- 2. Exhibitions and the spectacle of selling -- 3. Lady demons and 'well-dressed men' : gender and sales in the Edwardian gas industry -- 4. 'Keep the gas fires burning!' : war and reconstruction -- 5. Marketing modernity : gas versus electricity between the...
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Publisher
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2004.
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Summary
"Demons of Domesticity offers a social history of the English gas industry from the 1880s to the late 1930s, with an emphasis on the corporations that served London and the Home Counties. It documents the hitherto unexamined role that women played in the development of the industry by considering two major interlocking themes: the expansion of sale...
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Demons of domesticity : women and the English gas industry, 1889-1939 / Anne Clendinning.
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Modern economic and social history.
Includes bibliographical references.
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c2004.
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N338.47683/ 1
Record Identifier
74VKPkMBGWab
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPkMBGWab
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ISBN
0754606929 (alk. paper)
9780754606925 (alk. paper)
DDC
338.4768388
338.476657
MMS ID
991019710549702626
