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Reading, wanting, and broken economics : a twenty-first-century study of readers and bookshops in Southampton around 1900 /
Uses a historical study of bookselling and readers as a way to question and rethink our understanding of the market for symbolic goods.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Their or, Rather, Our Books
- Part One Theory, Methods, Tactics, and Politics
- Chapter 1 Reading and Wanting: Commodity Culture Needs Readers
- Chapter 2 Book Retail: A Test Bed for Sustainable Economics
- Chapter 3 Je Suis the Unknown Public
- Chapter 4 When Books Come to Town: International Aspirations, High Street-Bound
- Part Two Southampton Stories
- Chapter 5 What's Selling in Southampton: Commodity Culture, Dock Strikes, and Gas-and-Water Socialism
- Chapter 6 The Daily Round
- Chapter 7 High Street Southampton Bookshops
- Chapter 8 Gilbert's: A Treetop in the Networked Forest
- Part Three Factual Fictions
- Chapter 9 Five Visits to Gilbert's
- Visit 1, Henry
- Visit 2, Rita
- Visit 3, the Engineer
- Visit 4, Sylvie
- Visit 5, Milbeya
- Part Four Theory, Methods, Tactics, and Politics, 2.0
- Chapter 10 Reading Entertainment and the Construction of Economic Reality
- Chapter 11 Events, Frames, and History: Getting What We Want from a Book
- Chapter 12 Whose Is the Question Économique?
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Biblioteca: Toward a Bibliography of Works Published by H.M. Gilbert and Sons
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index