عنوان

From Main Street to mall :

شابک

0812224396

شابک

0812247280

شابک

9780812224399

شابک

9780812247282

شابک اشتباه

9780812291483 (ebook)

عنوان اصلي

From Main Street to mall :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the rise and fall of the American department store /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Vicki Howard.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Pennsylvania Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

[2015]

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2015

نام خاص و کميت اثر

295 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm.

عنوان فروست

American business, politics, and society

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-273) and index.

متن يادداشت

Introduction -- The palace of consumption -- Creating an industry -- Modernizing main street -- A new deal for department stores -- An essential industry in wartime -- The race for the suburbs -- The postwar discount revolution -- The death of the department store -- Epilogue : remembering downtown department stores.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Overview: 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 automobiles shifted the seat of economic prosperity to malls and shopping centers. The subsequent rise of discount big-box stores and electronic shopping accelerated the pace at which local department stores were shuttered or absorbed by national chains. But as the outpouring of nostalgia for lost downtown stores and historic shopping districts would indicate, these vibrant social institutions were intimately connected to American political, cultural, and economic identities. The first national study of the department store industry, From Main Street to Mall traces the changing economic and political contexts that transformed the American shopping experience in the twentieth century. With careful attention to small-town stores as well as glamorous landmarks such as Marshall Field's in Chicago and Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, historian Vicki Howard offers a comprehensive account of the uneven trajectory that brought about the loss of locally identified department store firms and the rise of national chains like Macy's and J.C. Penney. She draws on a wealth of primary source evidence to demonstrate how the decisions of consumers, government policy makers, and department store industry leaders culminated in today's Wal-Mart world. Richly illustrated with archival photographs of the nation's beloved downtown business centers, From Main Street to Mall shows that department stores were more than just places to shop.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780812291483

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Rise and fall of the American department store

موضوع مستند نشده

Department stores-- United States-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Department stores.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

7

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Howard, Vicki,1965-

تاريخ عمليات

20200822133038.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y