The Emergence of Modern Retailing 1750-1950

Gary Akehurst, Nicholas Alexander

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136296192
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: Business

The history of retail business development is an under-researched area. This book considers the emergence and development of modern retailing from an historical and management perspective in the period 1750-1950, addressing the need for further research and providing examples of current research activity. It considers the early emergence of retail forms in the late eighteenth century, the evolution of retail forms in the nineteenth century, and the late adaptation of retail management in the early twentieth century.

Index

Abyssinia (see also Ethiopia), 148

accordion theory, 4

Accrington, 96, 101–102

Adburgham, A., 37

Adlington, 101

Admiralty, 24

adulteration, 55

advertisements, 6, 9, 39–40, 51–52, 66, 130–131

Alcester, 22

Alexander, A., 5, 10, 12, 83

Alexander, D., 6–7, 38, 42, 47, 95

Alexander, N., 4

Alton, 46

Amatori, Franco, 158

American Tobacco Company, 127

Arbroath, 18, 26

Arcadia Bazaar Company, 86

Arkholme, 96

Army and Navy, 120

Assize of bread, 21

baker(s), 17, 19, 21, 23–24, 30, 141, 152

Bamfield, J., 5, 8–9, 11

Bannockburn, 18, 26

Barham, 16

Barnard Castle, 63

Barnes, D., 20

Bate, Ralph, 45–46

Bath, 19, 50

Bechofer, F., 13

Belgium, 12, 148

Bennett, R., 26

Benson, J., 5, 10, 12–13, 38

Beverley, 19, 23, 25–30

Birmingham, 19, 21, 23–26, 28–31, 59, 85

Bishop Auckland, 60, 68

Bishopswearmouth, 63

Blackburn, 97–98, 100–101, 104–106

Blackburn, J., 2, 8, 98

Blyth, 63

Boddewyn, J., 12

Bohstedt, J., 21

Bologna, 142

Bolshevik, 155

Bonsack, 117

Bolton, 97, 100–101, 104, 107–108

Boots the chemist, 84

Boulton, Matthew, 19, 23, 30, 31

Bradford, 22, 31

Braithwaite & Co., 59

branding, 9, 38, 116–120, 130

Brentford, 19

Bridgeton, 18

Bridgewater, 89

Bridlington 19, 2...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: The Emergence of Modem Retailing, 1750–1950
• Consumer-Owned Community Flour and Bread Societies in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
• Changes in Provincial Retail Practice during the Eighteenth Century, with Particular Reference to Central-Southern England
• Stocking the Store: Co-operative Retailers in North-East England and Systems of Wholesale Supply, circa 1860–77
• Structural and Spatial Trends in British Retailing: The Importance of Firm-Level Studies
• ‘The Municipal Store’: Adaptation and Development in the Retail Markets of Nineteenth-Century Urban Lancashire
• Retailing History as Economic and Cultural History: Strategies of Survival by Specialist Tobacconists in the Mass Market
• The Fascist ‘Disciplining’ of the Italian Retail Sector, 1922–40
• Index