From Main Street to Mall

Informationen zum Autor Vicki Howard Klappentext Vicki Howard is Lecturer in History at the University of Essex. She is author of Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and editor of the journal History of Retailing and Consumption. Zusammenfassung Richly illustrated with archival photos! this comprehensive study of the American department store industry traces the changing economic and political contexts that brought about the decline of downtown shopping districts and the rise of big-box stores and suburban malls. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1. The Palace of Consumption Chapter 2. Creating an Industry Chapter 3. Modernizing Main Street Chapter 4. A New Deal for Department Stores Chapter 5. An Essential Industry in Wartime Chapter 6. The Race for the Suburbs Chapter 7. The Postwar Discount Revolution Chapter 8. The Death of the Department Store Epilogue. Remembering Downtown Department Stores Notes Index Acknowledgments

Autorentext
Vicki Howard

Klappentext
Vicki Howard is Lecturer in History at the University of Essex. She is author of Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and editor of the journal History of Retailing and Consumption.

Zusammenfassung
Richly illustrated with archival photos, this comprehensive study of the American department store industry traces the changing economic and political contexts that brought about the decline of downtown shopping districts and the rise of big-box stores and suburban malls.

Inhalt
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Palace of Consumption
Chapter 2. Creating an Industry
Chapter 3. Modernizing Main Street
Chapter 4. A New Deal for Department Stores
Chapter 5. An Essential Industry in Wartime
Chapter 6. The Race for the Suburbs
Chapter 7. The Postwar Discount Revolution
Chapter 8. The Death of the Department Store
Epilogue. Remembering Downtown Department Stores
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

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