Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture by Sharon Zukin
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Point of Purchase
Summary
Why does shopping have such a powerful influence on our lives? As shoppers will attest, it provides a terrific balm for the soul, but shopping offers us an even greater bargain than that: as the public face of consumer society, it keeps the modern economy afloat.
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Table of Contents
Prologue: What Shopping Is; 1. A Brief History of Shopping; 2. Julia Learns to Shop; 3. From Woolworth's to Wal-Mart; 4. 'The Perfect Pair of Leather Pants'; 5. B. Altman, Ralph Lauren, and the Death of the Leisure Class; 6. Artemio Goes to Tiffany's; 7. Consumer Guides and the Invention of Lifestyle; 8. How Brooks Brothers Came to Look Like Banana Republic; 9. The Zen of Internet Shopping; 10. Zagats' 'R' Us; Epilogue: What Shopping Should Be Acknowledgments; Notes
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GOR006559099
9780415945974
0415945976
Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture by Sharon Zukin
Used - Good
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20031113
336
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