- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Citizen Consumers: The Athenian Democracy and The Origins of Western Consumption
- Things in Between: Splendour and Excess in Ming China
- Material Culture in Seventeenth-Century ‘Britain’: The Matter of Domestic Consumption
- Africa and The Global Lives of Things
- Transatlantic Consumption
- The Global Exchange of Food and Drugs
- From India to the World: Cotton and Fashionability
- Luxury, the Luxury Trades, and the Roots of Industrial Growth: A Global Perspective
- City and Country: Home, Possessions, and Diet, Western Europe 1600–1800
- Standard of Living, Consumption, and Political Economy Over the Past 500 Years
- Sites of Consumption in Early Modern Europe
- Public Spaces, Knowledge, and Sociability
- Small Shops and Department Stores
- Comfort and Convenience: Temporality and Practice
- Consumption of Energy
- Waste
- Saving and Spending
- Eating
- Consumer Activism, Consumer Regimes, and the Consumer Movement: Rethinking the History of Consumer Politics in the United States
- Consumption and Nationalism: China
- National Socialism and Consumption
- Things Under Socialism: The Soviet Experience
- Unexpected Subversions: Modern Colonialism, Globalization, and Commodity Culture
- Consumption, Consumerism, and Japanese Modernity
- Consumer Movements
- The Politics of Everyday Life
- Status, Lifestyle, and Taste
- Domesticity and Beyond: Gender, Family, and Consumption in Modern Europe
- Children's Consumption in History
- Youth and Consumption
- Fashion
- Self and Body
- Consumption and Well-Being
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Recent studies have carefully analysed the role of small shops and department stores, placing the emergence of department stores within the context of the broader changes that took place in the retail trade. This article looks at changes in the constellation of the retail trade, stressing the importance of consumer behaviour as both a factor influencing the trade and as a product of changes in the trade itself. It draws attention to the influence of the organization of shops upon consumers, and the effect of consumer attitudes upon the structure and appearance of the retailing trade. Furthermore, the article examines how much consumers adjusted to changing conditions of trade and the development of new retailing regimes, as well as the degree to which the trades themselves reacted to conditions in the labour market, the process of urbanization, and changes in consumer preferences. Finally, it discusses the triumph of self-service and supermarkets, the impact of retailing on time and space, the politics of retailing, and retailing as part of global history.
Keywords: small shops, department stores, retailing, consumer behaviour, consumers, labour market, urbanization, supermarkets, politics, consumer preferences
Heinz-Gerhard Haupt is Professor of European History at the University of Bielefeld and at the European University Institute, Florence. His publications include Control of Violence: Historical and International Perspectives on Violence in Modern Societies (with W. Heitmeyer et.al.) (New York, 2010), Comparative and Transnational History (with J. Kocka) (New York and London, 2009), and Die Konsumgesellschaft in Deutschland 1890–1990 (edited with C. Torp) (Frankfurt/Main 2009).
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- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Citizen Consumers: The Athenian Democracy and The Origins of Western Consumption
- Things in Between: Splendour and Excess in Ming China
- Material Culture in Seventeenth-Century ‘Britain’: The Matter of Domestic Consumption
- Africa and The Global Lives of Things
- Transatlantic Consumption
- The Global Exchange of Food and Drugs
- From India to the World: Cotton and Fashionability
- Luxury, the Luxury Trades, and the Roots of Industrial Growth: A Global Perspective
- City and Country: Home, Possessions, and Diet, Western Europe 1600–1800
- Standard of Living, Consumption, and Political Economy Over the Past 500 Years
- Sites of Consumption in Early Modern Europe
- Public Spaces, Knowledge, and Sociability
- Small Shops and Department Stores
- Comfort and Convenience: Temporality and Practice
- Consumption of Energy
- Waste
- Saving and Spending
- Eating
- Consumer Activism, Consumer Regimes, and the Consumer Movement: Rethinking the History of Consumer Politics in the United States
- Consumption and Nationalism: China
- National Socialism and Consumption
- Things Under Socialism: The Soviet Experience
- Unexpected Subversions: Modern Colonialism, Globalization, and Commodity Culture
- Consumption, Consumerism, and Japanese Modernity
- Consumer Movements
- The Politics of Everyday Life
- Status, Lifestyle, and Taste
- Domesticity and Beyond: Gender, Family, and Consumption in Modern Europe
- Children's Consumption in History
- Youth and Consumption
- Fashion
- Self and Body
- Consumption and Well-Being
- Index
