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Transformations of retailing in Europe after 1945
- Title
- Transformations of retailing in Europe after 1945 / edited by Ralph Jessen, Lydia Langer.
- Publication
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012], ©2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HF5429.6.E9 T73 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 234 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- The history of retailing and consumption
- Uniform Title
- History of retailing and consumption.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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? : the introduction of self-service -- The coming of the supermarket : the processes and consequences of transplanting American know how into Britain / Gareth Shaw, Adrian Bailey, Andrew Alexander, Dawn Nell and Jane Hamlet -- The long way to the supermarket : entrepreneurial innovation and adaptation in 1950s-1960s Italy / Emanuela Scarpellini -- How West German retailers learned to sell to a mass consumer society : self-service and supermarkets between "Americanization" and "Europeanization", 1950s-1960s / Lydia Langer -- Beyond self-service : the limits of "Americanization" in post-war West German retailing in comparative perspective / Jan Logemann -- New and old places of consumption -- Automatic trade : self-service and the polycentric early history of slot machines / Angelika Epple -- Mail order retailing in Britain since 1945 : credit community and technology / Richard Coopey -- What sex are sex shops? : the retailing of erotica in West Germany before the legalization of pornography / Elizabeth Heineman -- "Everything that exists in capitalism can be found in the department store" : the development of department stores in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-2000 / Ralf Banken -- Scientific knowledge, technical innovations and the retail trade -- Managing the unmanageable : the professionalization of market and consumer research in post-war Europe / Stefan Schwarzkopf -- Irradiating fish : improving food chains : retailers as mediators in a German innovation network : 1968-1977 / Karin Zachmann -- Cool alliances : freezers, frozen fish, and the shaping of industry-retail relations in Norway, 1950-1960 / Terje Finstad -- The barcode revolution in German food retailing / Annika Menke -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9781409424444 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1409424448 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781409424451 (ebook)
- 1409424456 (ebook)
- LCCN
- 2012007273
- 99950603214
- OCLC
- 779472221
- ocn779472221
- SCSB-5659486
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries