Consumer Credit Traps and Student Consumerism
This chapter analyses the development of market relationships and the methods of payment offered by tradesmen to undergraduate customers. In nineteenth-century Oxford, long-term credit, much preferred by merchants, played a major role in the local economy
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Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oxford
Sabine Chaouche
Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oxford
Sabine Chaouche School of Arts Sunway University Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
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Acknowledgements
Firstly, I would like to warmly thank Professor Jane Humphries cbe for her guidance and care, and my editor Megan Laddusaw for her unwavering support in making of this study a book. I would also like to warmly thank Professor Kevin O’Rourke for his suggestions that have opened up inspiring research perspectives. This work would not have been completed without constructive advice given by Professor Laura Ugolini, Dr Chris Day, Dr Julie Marfany and Dr Christina de Bellaigue. My thanks go to Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah ao, Professor John Bowers qc, Professor Jarlath Ronayne am, Professor Graeme Wilkinson, Dr Liz Miller and Dr Carole Bourne-Taylor for the wonderful visiting scholarship at Brasenose College which enabled me to finalise this study. I particularly would like to thank the Provost of Oriel College Mr Neil Mendoza and Mr Robert Petre, the archivist of the college, who allowed me to take photographs of an album of students in the late Victorian era: this material has been extremely useful for my research and I am very grateful to him for helping me discover this core primary resource. A few class photographs of past Oriel College students can be seen in this book. I woul
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