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Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on May 25, 2007
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khm035
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

Giorgio Riello. A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century. Pasold Studies in Textile History 15. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiii + 320 pp. ISBN 0-19-929225-6, $110.00.

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Through a case study of London's footwear trades, Giorgio Riello ventures to establish the interrelationship of consumption, retailing, and production in the (very) long eighteenth century. Documenting continuity and change from the 1650s to the 1890s, he addresses such disparate themes as fashion history, consumerism, retailing, urban and architectural history, credit and capital, craft organization, and industrialization. Riello succeeds admirably in demonstrating that productive change is inextricably related to both consumption and distribution. And, he makes compelling claims for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Nancy Packer

University of Delaware, USA


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