1st Edition
Cathedrals of Consumption European Department Stores, 1850-1939
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1999, Cathedrals of Consumption examines the history of the department store. After many decades in which it was almost exclusively historians of retailing and company biographers who were interested in the phenomenon, the department store has now come to attract the attention of historians of culture, consumption, gender, urban life and much more. Indeed, the department... Read more
1. The World of the Department Store: Distribution, Culture and Social Change, Geoffrey Crossick and Serge Jaumain. 2. The Newness of the Department Store: A View from the Eighteenth Century, Claire Walsh. 3. Department Stores as Retail Innovation in Germany: A Historica-Geographical Perspective on the Period 1870-1914. 4. 'Doing the Shops' at Christmas: Women, Men and the Department Store in England, c. 1880-1914, Christopher P. Hosgood. 5. Marianne in the Department Store: Gender and the Politics of Consumption in Turn-of-the-Century Paris, Lisa Tiersten. 6. Theft and Thieves in German Department Stores, 1895-1930: A Discourse on Morality, Crime and Gender, Uwe Spiekermann. 7. Selling Dreams: Advertising Strategies from Grands Magasins to Supermarkets in Ghent, 1900-1960. 8. Acts of Consumption: Musical Comedy and the Desire of Exchange, Erika D. Rappaport. 9. Department Stores and Middle-Class Consumerism in Budapest, 1896-1939, Gábor Gyáni. 10. Les Magasins Réunis: From the Provinces to Paris, From Art Nouveau to Art Deco, Catherine Coley. 11. From Messel to Mendelsohn: German Department Store Architecture in Defence of Urban and Economic Change, Kathleen James. 12. Training Sales Personnel in France Between the Wars, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel. 13. Employers' Organisations in French Department Stores Dring the Inter-War Period: Between Conservatism and Innovation.
Biography
Serge Jaumain, Geoffrey Crossick
