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  • From Main Street to Mall

    The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store

    by Vicki Howard ...
    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle. Through the early twentieth century, department stores remained centers of social activity in local ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age

    Edited by Dr. Vicki Howard ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Shopping was a Library Journal Best in Reference selection for 2022.In the modern consumer age that emerged after the First World War, shopping became a ubiquitous cultural practice. Despite its apparent universality, the historicity and contingency of shopping should not be ignored: its meaning was always inextricably linked to the political, material and economic contexts ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing

    Edited by Jon Stobart, Vicki Howard ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    Retail history is a rich, cross-disciplinary field that demonstrates the centrality of retailing to many aspects of human experience, from the provisioning of everyday goods to the shaping of urban environments; from earning a living to the construction of identity. Over the last few decades, interest in the history of retail has increased greatly, spanning centuries, extending to all areas of the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • From Main Street to Mall

    The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store

    by Vicki Howard ...
    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle. Through the early twentieth century, department stores remained centers of social activity in local ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Sum of Small Things

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    by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett ...
    How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us allIn today’s world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry NPR tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuous consumption—like eating ... Read more

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  • A Consumers' Republic

    The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

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    In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the ... Read more

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  • Impact

    Six Patterns to Spread Your Social Innovation

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  • Antitrust

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    How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

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  • Wal-Mart

    The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

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    A collection of essays that "do an incredible job of balancing the wonders and horrors of the force that is Wal-Mart " ( Booklist , starred review).Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the United States and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a ... Read more

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