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Cathedrals of Consumption - The European Department Store, 1850-1939 (Paperback)
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Cathedrals of Consumption - The European Department Store, 1850-1939 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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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 store in its classic era of expansive growth has often
seemed better than anything else to embody the cultural and social
modernity of its time. The articles in this book range widely in
presenting the breadth of these new approaches to department store
history. An introductory essay explores the questions that surround
the department store from its appearance in the mid-nineteenth
century, through its golden age in the decades before the First
World War, to the challenges posed in the more competitive world of
inter-war Europe. A dozen contributors - writing about Britain,
France, Germany, Belgium and Hungary - then examine themes as
varied as the new public space which department stores provided for
women, the politics of consumption, the architecture of the new
stores, the training of the workforce, the cult of shopping,
advertising strategies, shoplifting, employer organisations, and
the geographical spread of the new stores, while a comparison with
eighteenth-century London raises the question of just how new the
department store was.
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