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Reading, wanting, and broken economics : a twenty-first-century study of readers and bookshops in Southampton around 1900
- Title
- Reading, wanting, and broken economics : a twenty-first-century study of readers and bookshops in Southampton around 1900 / Simon R. Frost.
- Author
- Frost, Simon R.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | Z330.6.S66 F76 2021 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 384 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Uses a historical study of bookselling and readers as a way to question and rethink our understanding of the market for symbolic goods"--
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in the history of books, publishing, and the book trades
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Booksellers and bookselling > Economic aspects > History > England > Southampton > 20th century
- Bookstores > England > Southampton > History > 20th century
- Books and reading > England > Southampton > History > 20th century
- Books and reading > Economic aspects > History > England > Southampton > 20th century
- Books and reading
- Booksellers and bookselling > Economic aspects
- Bookstores
- England > Southampton
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Their or, Rather, Our Books -- Part One: Theory, Methods, Tactics, and Politics -- Reading and Wanting -- Book Retail: A Test Bed for Sustainable Economics -- Je suis the Unknown Public -- When Books Come to Town: International Aspirations, High Street Bound -- Part Two: Southampton Stories -- What's Selling in Southampton: Commodity Culture, Dock Strikes, and Gas and Water Socialism -- The Daily Round -- High Street Southampton Book Shops -- Gilbert's: A Treetop in the Networked Forest -- Part Three: Factual Fictions -- Five Visits to Gilbert's -- Part Four: Theory, Methods, Tactics, and Politics, 2.0 -- Reading Entertainment and the Construction of Economic Reality -- Events, Frames and History: Getting What We Want from a Book -- Whose Iis the Question Économique? -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Biblioteca: Towards a Bibliography of Works Published by H.M. Gilbert and Sons.
- ISBN
- 9781438483511
- 1438483511
- 9781438483535 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020031594
- 40030507575
- OCLC
- on1193560198
- 1193560198
- SCSB-13617295
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library