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ABSTRACT
This special edition contributes to the growing scholarship on Australian retail history. It collates a range of work that represents and extends existing themes in Australian retail historiography with the aim of encouraging further work in the field. Topics covered include: Chinese storekeepers in remote regional communities, transnational flows of goods to these communities, colonial arcades and department stores, intercolonial rivalry and boosterism that incentivised the early development of large retail spaces, entrepreneurial business women, Australian milk bars, the influence of diasporic migration on food cultures and leisure activities, advertising in twentieth century department stores, urban planning, and post-war shopping centre development. This article provides an outline of these articles as well as an overview of Australian retail historiography.
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Notes
1 For an exception, which includes an analysis of some large-scale retailers, see, Fleming, Merrett and Ville, The Big End of Town. Howard Dick and David Merrett’s The Internationalisation Strategies of Small-Country Firms also includes chapters on retailing and retail property: see, Sammartino, “Retail”; Sammartino and Van Ruth, “The Westfield Group”.
2 Davis, A History of Shopping; Jeffreys, Retail Trading in Britain; Alexander, Retailing in England.
3 Savitt, “Looking Back,” 328–30.
4 Marcus Clark & Co. A Souvenir of the Success.
5 Mark Foy’s Ltd. The Romance of the House of Foy; Redmond, The History of Anthony Hordern and Sons.
6 Davies, Foy’s Saga; Marshall, The Gay Provider; Dunstan, The Store on the Hill; Brash, The Model Store 1885–1985; Clark, Bound to Rise; Hordern, Children of One Family; Penley, Harris Scarfe; Hough, Boans for Service; Cullen, The Extraordinary Life of Charles Lloyd Jones; O’Neill, David Jones; Cooper, Remembering Georges.
7 Murray, The Woolworths Way.
8 Westfield Holdings Ltd. The Westfield Story; Murphy, Challenges of Change.
9 Reekie, Temptations.
10 Kingston, Basket, Bag and Trolley.
11 National Centre of Biography. Australian Dictionary of Biography.
12 Humphery, Shelf Life.
13 Pollon, Shopkeepers; McCann, A Lot in Store; Webber, Hoskins and McCann, What’s in store?
14 Miller, “Retailing in Australia and New Zealand,” 413–28.
15 Merrilees and Miller, “Department Store Innovation”; Merrilees and Miller, “The Superstore Format”; Merrilees and Miller, “Innovation and Strategy.”
16 Wolfers, “The Big Stores.”
17 Loy-Wilson, Sophie. “The Gospel of Enthusiasm.”
18 Reekie, “Humanising Industry.”
19 Bailey, “Retailing and the Home”; Bailey, “Marketing to the Big Middle”; Bailey, “Absorptive Capacity”.
20 Spearritt, “I Shop Therefore I Am”; Spearritt, “Suburban Cathedrals.”
21 Davison, “From the Market to the Mall.”
22 Barrett, “Roselands.”
23 Allan, “Marion.”
24 Sammartino and Van Ruth. “The Westfield Group.”
25 Bailey, “Feudal Barons”; Bailey, “Snowball Sampling”; Bailey, “Urban Disruption”; Bailey, “Shopping for Entertainment.”
26 Bailey, Managing the Marketplace.
27 Davis and Lesh, “Lost [in] Arcadia.”
28 Davis, “Arcadia in Australia.”
29 Davis, “Nineteenth-Century Arcades.”
30 Davis, “Transnationalism”.
31 Bishop, Minding Her Own Business.
32 Reese, “Shopgirls as Consumers.”
33 Loy-Wilson, “A Chinese shopkeeper”; Loy-Wilson, “Rural Geographies.”
34 Merrett, “The Making of Australia’s Supermarket Duopoly.”
35 Bailey, “Retail Suburbanization.”
36 Sammartino, “Retail.”
37 McLeod, Abundance.
38 Rhodes, Til You Drop; Collins, Gone Shopping.
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Matthew Bailey
Assoc. Prof. Matthew Bailey is based at Macquarie University. His book, Managing the Marketplace: Reinventing Shopping Centres in Post-War Australia (Routledge, 2020) is the first book on the subject, and one of the few to comprehensively examine Australian retail history. He has published widely on retail and retail property history, including in leading international and Australian journals.