A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing

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A Nation of Shopkeepers reflects some of the most exciting research on retail history and cultures of consumption. The contributors challenge existing ideas about retail development showing how, for example, large-scale retailers played a far lesser role in the development of the modern city than is generally thought, and how the success of department stores was determined less by 'entrepreneurial' spirit and more by the unforeseen consequences of legislation.

The British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers

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The British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers
C. E. Carrington
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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The British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers
Charles Carrington
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The British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers. Part I: Making of the Empire

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The British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers. Part I: Making of the Empire
C.E. Carrington
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: B000KRVUNO

British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers. Second Edition.

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British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers. Second Edition.
C.E. Carrington
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British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers. Second Edition.
C.E. Carrington
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The British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers: Part One Making the Empire

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The British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers: Part One Making the Empire
C.E. Carrington
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A Nation of Shopkeepers
Evans & Lawson
Manufacturer: Plexus Publishing
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In the last decade or so, English towns and villages have been altered almost beyond recognition, and the small specialist shops, run by families who have taken a fierce pride in their traditions of quality and service, are in danger of disappearing forever. A Nation of Shopkeepers is a photographic tribute to these bastions of personal enterprise while they still survive. Bill Evans and Andrew Lawson have combed England to record the strong feeling of period and design that these small shops encompass, whether through style and decoration of their frontages and interiors, their signs, displays of wares or the craftsmanship they offer their customers.

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Nation of Shopkeepers
Greville Havenhand
Manufacturer: E & S Publ.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQLWBM

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing.(Book Review): An article from: Albion

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A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing.(Book Review): An article from: Albion
Matthew Hilton
Manufacturer: North American Conference on British Studies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00081XVRA
Release Date: 2005-08-01

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This digital document is an article from Albion, published by North American Conference on British Studies on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 996 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing.(Book Review)
Author: Matthew Hilton
Publication: Albion (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: North American Conference on British Studies
Volume: 36 Issue: 2 Page: 333(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Guidelines and 25 activites designed to build and maintain effective teams!

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Written by leading authorities from Europe, the Americas and Asia, this path-breaking work develops an innovative and original theorization of global political economy. While most approaches theorize global political economy from the perspectives of power and production or states and markets, this work argues that what feminists call social reproduction is a more basic framework, upon which most forms of power and production, and states and markets, must necessarily rest.

Work Redesign (Organization Development)

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Work Redesign (Organization Development)
J. Richard Hackman , and Greg R. Oldham
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Agricultural Development and Gender Issues in Malawi

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Agricultural Development and Gender Issues in Malawi
Anita Spring
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Two main topics constitute this volume. The first concerns general issues and themes on women and development (WID). The second involves the results of the Women in Argricultural Development Project (WIADP), a project designed and directed by the author in the 1980s. The author examines the results of the project, which include data sets, specific research findings, and policy changes in Malawi. The book deals with issues affecting both men and women farmers in the smallholder sector. It looks at activities that female and male government workers in the agricultural sector performed in order to raise general awareness of women's agricultural work and to provide agricultural services to smallholder farmers, particular women. This volume also touches on several of the author's experiences after WIADP, including serving as director for the Food and Agriculture Organization, (FAO)'s global program on women in agriculture; creating and supervising a training program on Gender Analysis; and supervising a portfolio of WID projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Near East.

Women and Development in the Third World (Routledge Introductions to Development)

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Women and Development in the Third World
An eye-opening look at women in development
Katherine Shorey
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Women and Development in the Third World (Routledge Introductions to Development)
Janet Momsen
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415016959

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For all societies, the common denominator of gender is female subordination. For women of the Third World, the effects of this position are exacerbated by the legacy of colonialism, economic crisis, and patriarchal attitudes. Feminist critique has introduced the gender factor to development theory, arguing that the equal distribution of the benefits of economic development can only be achieved through a radical restructuring of the process of development. Now, the universal validity of both gender-neutral development theory and the feminist concepts of the post-industrial world are being questioned. In this book, Janet Momsen presents ten worldwide case studies which act as personalized examples of women's lives and coping strategies in the Third World. Her review of policy and practice raises questions about development planning and the empowerment of women. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of environmental degradation and economic restructuring on women, with a description of the integral position of women in any solution to the current crises facing the Third World.

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Women and Development in the Third World.......2000-11-27

This book is an easy reader yet it has very interesting case studies that further strengthens the key ideas throughout the book.

An eye-opening look at women in development.......2000-10-02

Momsen gives the reader a detailed and data saturated presentation of the predominant reasons behind and the characteristics of discrimination against women in 3rd world countries. She makes salient points about local economic function and readily backs up her hypotheses with graphs and tables chock full of econometric goodness. But the book drags at times, especially when she delves into data doldrums. She rescues herself through a well constructed argument that helps neophytes like me understand the complex issue at hand. Overall, a good effort and extremely informative. Keep up the good work.

Katherine Shorey.......2000-10-02

Momsen's book describes the challenging atmospere in which third world women are living. Their unappreciated and unrewarded role in the domestic sphere has left them too unskilled and uneducated to enter the labor force. Momsen also explains possible causes for the historical gender inequalities that are illustrated throughout her book. She further investigates the role of the women and concludes that the oppression is socially, not biologically based.-Katherine Shorey

Information in Every Sentence.......2000-09-27

This book was excellent because it had very well thought out and factual information. I enjoyed and agree with, especially the thesis that the reason women are economically under men is because of the extra work they have becuase of their multiple responsibilities; i.e. housekeeping, child rearing, and a job. - Kimberly Campbell

Short Review.......2000-09-26

Women and Development in the Third World asks and answers questions about why women stand where they do in the developing world. The result of women's labor both within and outside of the home is explored in depth. The strength of this short book is its ability to keep the reader's interest, even while quoting hard data. This is not a feminist complaint about the subordination of women; it is an objective look at the role women play in the economies of the developing world.

Economic Development and the Division of Labor

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Economic Development and the Division of Labor
Jeffrey Sachs , and Xiaokai Yang
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This innovative new book from Xiaokai Yang introduces students to development economics through the lens of inframarginal and marginal analyses, and shows how this way of thinking has influenced a shift back to classical economic theory within the field of economic development. Yang offers a thorough analysis of trade and macroeconomics not to be found in comparable works, and focuses on institutional and transaction cost issues of critical interest to development economists.

Women and Development: The Sexual Division of Labor in Rural Societies

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Women and Development: The Sexual Division of Labor in Rural Societies

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This book focuses on the role of women in the productive structures of a diverse group of third world countries, including India, Peru, Nigeria, Mexico, Singapore, Ethiopia, and China. The product of research sponsored by the International Labour Organization's Programme on Rural Women, Women and Development deals with the specifics of rural women's situations and sets a basis for formulating policies to give direction to their struggle. The nine chapters combine description with analysis, presenting women's work in the context of a world systems perspective. The book emphasizes that rural women, although they appear isolated in homes and villages, are in fact constantly influenced by the world's economic trends.

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The Antinomies of Interdependence
John Gerard Ruggle
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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