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Victorian Shopping
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Victorian Shopping - Maurice Baren
In Victorian Shopping, Maurice Baren's fascinating text and over 300 illustrations trace the origins of our favourite pastime and offer a tantalising glimpse behind the lace curtains of abygone age.
Shop till you drop could have been coined in the 19th century when it seemed that anything could be bought, from 'proven' remedies for every conceivable bodily ill, to mourning clothes and funeral services in the event that the pills and potions failed! Food, fashion and furnishings, books, toys and beauty preparations - the Victorian shopper wanted them all.
Messrs Boot, Burberry and Bentall, Marks and Spencer, Harrod and John Lewis to name but a few, built their personal empires alongside that of Queen Victoria, as trade reached its peak and industrial technology its height. Raw materials, spices, fabricsand goods flooded in through the ports of Great Britain. Towns and cities grew rapidly and railways, trams and omnibuses appearedto take would-be shoppers from one part of the country and one part of town to another.
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In Victorian Shopping, Maurice Baren's fascinating text and over 300 illustrations trace the origins of our favourite pastime and offer a tantalising glimpse behind the lace curtains of abygone age.
Shop till you drop could have been coined in the 19th century when it seemed that anything could be bought, from 'proven' remedies for every conceivable bodily ill, to mourning clothes and funeral services in the event that the pills and potions failed! Food, fashion and furnishings, books, toys and beauty preparations - the Victorian shopper wanted them all.
Messrs Boot, Burberry and Bentall, Marks and Spencer, Harrod and John Lewis to name but a few, built their personal empires alongside that of Queen Victoria, as trade reached its peak and industrial technology its height. Raw materials, spices, fabricsand goods flooded in through the ports of Great Britain. Towns and cities grew rapidly and railways, trams and omnibuses appearedto take would-be shoppers from one part of the country and one part of town to another.
Het boek nieuw
144 blz.
kan door de brievenbus
paperback