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Point of purchase : how shopping changed American culture / Sharon Zukin.
Lippincott Library HC110.C6 Z84 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zukin, Sharon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Shopping--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Shopping.
- Consumer behavior--United States--History.
- Consumer behavior.
- History.
- Shopping--Social aspects.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Summary:
- An enormously entertaining yet serious account of how shopping has come to be so central to American social life. Traces the rise of department stores, boutiques and bargain stores. For readers of Thomas Hine's I Want That and Lizbeth Cohen's A Consumer's Republic. Includes fascinating vignettes of contemporary shoppers.
- Contents:
- A brief history of shopping
- Julia learns to shop
- From Woolworth's to Wal-mart
- "The perfect pair of leather pants"
- B. Altman, Ralph Lauren, and the death of the leisure class
- Artemio goes to Tiffany's
- Consumer guides and the invention of lifestyle
- How Brooks brothers came to look like Banana Republic
- The Zen of internet shopping
- Zagats' 'R' us.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-312) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415945976
- OCLC:
- 52127491
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