Sugar and Spice : Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England, 1650-1830
ISBN: 9780199577927 | 0199577927
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/6/2013
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Consumers in eighteenth-century England were firmly embedded in an expanding world of goods, one that incorporated a range of novel foods (tobacco, chocolate, coffee, and tea) and new supplies of more established commodities, including sugar, spices, and dried fruits. Much has been written about the attraction of these goods, which went from being novelties or expensive luxuries in the mid-seventeenth century to central elements of the British diet a century or so later. They have been linked to the rise of Britain as a commercial and imperial ... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Ancient and modern: the grocery trade in early-modern England | |
| A new world of goods: groceries in the long eighteenth century | |
| From colony to counter: networks of supply | |
| Geographies of selling: the grocery trades in provincial towns | |
| Selling spaces: display and storage of groceries | |
| Selling groceries: service, credit, and price | |
| Exotic, empire... MORE | |
| Baskets of goods: customers and shopping practices | |
| Tea and cakes: consuming groceries | |
| Groceries and changing domestic material culture | |
| Conclusions | |
| Bibliography | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Jon Stobart has published widely on the history of consumption, retailing, and leisure in eighteenth-century England, and has particular interests in the spatiality of consumption and the operation of the second-hand market.
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