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Ashgate
Language
English
Pages
244

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Table of Contents

Ready money only : small shops and new retail methods
Vanity fairs : the growth of bazaars and fancy fairs
'Mothers beware!' : fraud by the retailer
The culture of fraud and the female consumer
Shoplifting in early nineteenth-century England
Mrs. McGregor's sealskin jacket : female frauds and the art of buying without paying
Solving the problem of the criminal consumer : women and kleptomania.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-235) and index.

Published in
Aldershot, Hampshire, England, Burlington, VT
Series
The history of retailing and consumption

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.3/0942/09034
Library of Congress
HF5429.6.G72 E69 2005, HF5429.6.G72E69 2005, HF5429.6.G72

The Physical Object

Pagination
244 p. :
Number of pages
244

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3295047M
Internet Archive
crimegenderconsu0000whit
ISBN 10
0754652076
LCCN
2004016884
OCLC/WorldCat
965542759, 56012340
Goodreads
4017767

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