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The Urban Department Store in America, 1850-1930 (Paperback)
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The Urban Department Store in America, 1850-1930 (Paperback)
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In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as
a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States.
While the physical building type is the foundation of this
comprehensive architectural study, Louisa Iarocci reaches beyond
the analysis of the bricks and mortar to reconsider how the 'spaces
of selling' were culturally-produced spaces, as well as the product
of interrelated economic, social, technological and aesthetic
forces. The agenda of the book is three-fold; to address the lack
of a comprehensive architectural study of the nineteenth century
department store in the United States; to expand the analysis of
the commercial city as a built and represented entity; and to
continue recent scholarly efforts that seek to understand
commercial space as a historically specific and a conceptually
perceived construct. The Urban Department Store in America,
1850-1930 acts as a corrective to a current imbalance in the
historiography of this retailing institution that tends to
privilege its role as an autonomous 'modern' building type.
Instead, Iarocci documents the development of the department store
as an urban institution that grew out of the built space of the
city and the lived spaces of its occupants.
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