Gentlemen and shopkeepers: Supplying the country house in eighteenth-century England

Economic History Review

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 885-904

  Stobart, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL TRADITION; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; MATERIAL CULTURE; RURAL SOCIETY;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79960452820     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00562.x     Document Type: Article

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