Bibliograph

Carried away, the invention of modern shopping, Rachel Bowlby

Type

Label

Carried away, the invention of modern shopping, Rachel Bowlby

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Carried away

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

51566243

Responsibility statement

Rachel Bowlby

Sub title

the invention of modern shopping

Summary

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 States, France, and Great Britain. Bowlby recalls the fascinating early days of these institutions. In the mid-nineteenth century, when department stores first developed, their fabulous new buildings brought middle-class women into town, where they could indulge in what was then a new a

Table Of 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; Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Short Bibliography; Index

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