Carried Away : : The Invention of Modern Shopping /

Carried Away : : The Invention of Modern Shopping / / Rachel Bowlby.

Asserting that a history of shopping was, until recently, a history of women, Rachel Bowlby trains her eye on the evolution of the modern shopper. She uses a compelling blend of history, literary analysis, and cultural criticism to explore the rise of department stores and supermarkets of the United...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Bowlby, Rachel,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 12 illus
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. The Haunted Superstore
  • 2. The Mobile Shopper
  • 3. The Silent Salesman
  • 4. The Passer-by and the Shop Window
  • 5. The Package
  • 6. The First Shoppers
  • 7. The Supermarket's Beginnings
  • 8. The Dayton Connection
  • 9. The Jungle and Other Post-war Supermarkets
  • 10. The Reader in the Supermarket
  • 11. The Shopper in the Survey
  • 12. The Deviant, the Checkout and the Future
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgements
  • Short Bibliography
  • Index

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