Carried away : the invention of modern shopping /

Asserting that a history of shopping was, until recently, a history of women, Rachel Bowlby trains her eye on the evolution of the modern shopper. She uses a compelling blend of history, literary analysis, and cultural criticism to explore the rise of department stores and supermarkets of the United...

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Autor principal: Bowlby, Rachel, 1957- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New York : Columbia University Press ©2001.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/bowl12274
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Sumari:Asserting that a history of shopping was, until recently, a history of women, Rachel Bowlby trains her eye on the evolution of the modern shopper. She uses a compelling blend of history, literary analysis, and cultural criticism to explore the rise of department stores and supermarkets of the United States, France, and Great Britain. Bowlby recalls the fascinating early days of these institutions. In the mid-nineteenth century, when department stores first developed, their fabulous new buildings brought middle-class women into town, where they could indulge in what was then a new a.
Descripció física:1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index.
ISBN:0231504446
9780231504447
0231122748
9780231122740