Vicki Howard

From Main Street to Mall

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780812247282
• ISBN-10: 0812247280
• Artikelnr.: 42203882

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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