Point of Purchase
How Shopping Changed American Culture
Published on 13. November 2003
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-415-94597-4 (ISBN)
Description
Why does shopping have such a powerful influence on our lives? As shoppers will attest, it provides a terrific balm for the soul, but shopping offers us an even greater bargain than that: as the public face of consumer society, it keeps the modern economy afloat.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
30 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-94597-4 (9780415945974)
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Content
Prologue: What Shopping Is; 1. A Brief History of Shopping; 2. Julia Learns to Shop; 3. From Woolworth's to Wal-Mart; 4. 'The Perfect Pair of Leather Pants'; 5. B. Altman, Ralph Lauren, and the Death of the Leisure Class; 6. Artemio Goes to Tiffany's; 7. Consumer Guides and the Invention of Lifestyle; 8. How Brooks Brothers Came to Look Like Banana Republic; 9. The Zen of Internet Shopping; 10. Zagats' 'R' Us; Epilogue: What Shopping Should Be Acknowledgments; Notes