| Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1850-1939 Contributor(s): Crossick, Geoffrey (Editor), Jaumain, Serge (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1840142367 ISBN-13: 9781840142365 Publisher: Ashgate Publishing OUR PRICE: $92.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - Retailing |
| Dewey: 381.141 |
| LCCN: 98019489 |
| Series: Historical Urban Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.35" W x 9.41" (1.41 lbs) 326 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The history of the department store has moved into the limelight in recent years. After many decades in which it was almost exclusively historians of retailing and company biographers who were interested in the phenomenon, the department store has now come to attract the attention of historians of culture, consumption, gender, urban life and much more. Indeed, the department store in its classic era of expansive growth has often seemed better than anything else to embody the cultural and social modernity of its time. |