Michael B. Miller

The Bon Marché (eBook, ePUB)

Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this comprehensive social history of the Bon Marché, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, Michael Miller explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the new emporia so vividly dramatized. Through an original interpretation of paternalism, public images, and family-firm relationships, he shows how this new business enterprise succeeded in reconciling traditional values with the coming of an age of mass consumption and bureaucracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781400844043
• Artikelnr.: 60045552

Autorenporträt

Michael B. Miller is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
3
I
New Stores
19
II
The "Grand Magasin"
48
Merchandise and the Mass Market
48
Finance and Purchasing
53
Organization
58
III
The Boucicauts
75
Building Organization Men: The Base
77
Building Organization Men: Management
112
Ritualization
121
Entrepreneurial Roles and Business Change
127
IV
The Directors
130
Faithful Continuators
130
Members of a Single Family
143
V
Selling Consumption
165
An Eighth Wonder
166
A Way of Life
178
VI
Selling the Store
190
Ambivalence and Hostility
190
A Model Community
215
Conclusion
231
Appendix
241
Bibliography
245
Index
259