The department store : a social history / Bill Lancaster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lancaster, William, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Department stores--Great Britain--History.

Department stores.

Industrial relations--Great Britain--History.

Industrial relations.

Department stores--Social aspects.

History.

Great Britain.

Department stores--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.

Physical Description:

vii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 1995.

Summary:

The department store was brought to its first peak in the middle of the nineteenth century in Paris. It was seized on and developed as a central feature of American urban life by the pioneers based particularly in Chicago. Subsequently Gordon Selfridge left Chicago to bring the idea to London in the early 20th century. This is a comparative social history of the department store in its manifestations on both sides of the Atlantic over a period of seventy years. It deals at length with the importance of the department store in the history of retailing and with its role in the transformation of urban life, particularly the city centre, the rise of the consumer and the economic and social liberation of women.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0718513746

071851985X

OCLC:

32508175