Introduction -- Furniture design: sharing knowledge among craftspeople -- Pattern books: communicating between producers and consumers -- Forming taste and style: consumers' needs and participation -- The showroom as mediator -- Furniture repairs and services: building a clientele -- Taste,...

"The dominance of economic repertories of value is a relatively new phenomenon, and one which directly correlates to the steady advent of capitalism in early modern Europe. This volume brings together scholars with expertise in a variety of related fields, including economic history, the history...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: DESTROYING THE 'NATION OF SHOPKEEPERS' -- 1 Ready Money Only: Small Shops and New Retail Methods -- 2 Vanity Fairs: The Growth of...

List of tables of figures -- Notes on the contributors -- General editor's preface -- Introduction: transformations of retailing in Europe after 1945 / Ralph Jessen and Lydia Langer -- Consumer society revisited : affluence, choice and diversity / Frank Trentmann -- Americanization of retailing?...

We'd rather be hanged than starved! : the politics of provisions -- The genesis of provision politics, 1527-1660 -- The recession of provision politics, 1660-1739 : a political nation of producers -- Bolting mills and marketplaces : The formative generation of the politics of provisions,...