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Richard Coopey

Mail Order Retailing in Britain: A Business and Social History

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Since its inception in the late 19th century, Britain's mail order industry both exploited and generated social networks in building its businesses. The common foundation of the sector was the agency system; Sales were made through catalogs held by agents, ordinary people in families, neighborhoods, pubs, clubs and workplaces. Through this agency system mail order firms in Britain were able to tap social networks both to build a customer base, but also to obtain vital information on credit worthiness.In this, the first comprehensive history of the British mail order industry, the authors combine business and social history to fully explain th… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: O'Connell, Sean / Porter, Dilwyn
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-829650-8
  • EAN: 9780198296508
  • Produktnummer: 22664548
  • Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 258 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.6 cm 540 g
  • Auflage: New
  • Gewicht: 540

Über den Autor


Richard Coopey lectures in history at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Previously he was Senior Research Fellow at the Business History Unit of the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include the history of technology, banking, retailing, and water resources. Publications include 3i: Fifty Years Investing in Industry with D. Clarke (OUP, 1995), Britain in the 1970s: The Troubled Economy with N. Woodward(UCL, 1995), and Information Technology Policy: An International History (OUP, 2004).Sean O'Connell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Ulster. His first monograph was The Car in British Society: Class, Gender and Motoring 1896-1939 (Manchester University Press, 1998). A second monograph (Class, Community, and Credit in the UK since 1880), drawing upon research financed by the ESRC, is currently being prepared for publication by Oxford University Press. O'Connell has also recently received funding from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate thehistory of joyriding, using Belfast as a case studyDilwyn Porter is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History and International Studies at De Montfort University. He has published on aspects of business, media, and sports history in Business History, Business Archives, Contemporary British History, Media History, the International Review of Retailing, Distribution and Consumer Research and Sport in History. With Adrian Smith, he recently edited Sport and National Identity inthe Post-War World (Routledge, 2004). He is currently writing Close to Power, a study of financial journalism in Britain since the late nineteenth century, for Oxford University Press.

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