[PDF.58hc] From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store (American Business, Politics, and Society)

From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store (American Business, Politics, and Society)

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 | #74728 in eBooks |  2015-04-22 |  2015-04-22 | File type: PDF

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Worthwhile|By Alice Horton-Kelley|"From Main Stream to Mall" is a very informative book about the history of retail in the United States. While most media reports regarding the changes in shopping habits of Americans focus mostly on the eCommerce of online shopping, this book includes the significant effect of the big box store on the changes in our shopping methods. It expla| ||"Combining deep historical research and vivid description, Vicki Howard lucidly explains how, when, and why the department store came to dominate American commercial culture and how the democratization of consumption, changing public policy, and the forces of

The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle. Through the early twentieth century, department stores remained centers of social activity in local communities. But after World War II, suburban growth and the ubiquity of au...

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