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Vicki Howard

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Vicki Howard teaches history at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York

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03/16 (1) 20. Jahrhundert (2) 2007 (1) American cultural history (1) Amerikanische Geschichte (2) Amerikanistik (2) 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 (1) and economic identities.The first national study of the department store industry (1) Barb-book (1) D (1) department stores (4) Department stores - United States - History (1) department stores remained centers of social activity in local communities. But after World War II (1) Farbe (1) From Main Street to Mall shows that department stores were more than just places to shop. (1) 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 (1) Gelesen (1) General Social Sciences books (1) Geschenk (1) Geschichte (2) gift book (1) government policy makers (1) 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 e (1) History - 19th C. American (1) Im Besitz (1) Konsumismus (2) kulturell (1) Miniaturbuch (1) noch zu lesen (6) Sachbuch (2) shops and shopping (1) SS - Commerce/Business (1) 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 shutte (1) The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light (1) these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle. Through the early twentieth century (1) these vibrant social institutions were intimately connected to American political (1) Unternehmen (4) USA (1) Verbrauch (1) wedding industry (1)
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From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the… von Vicki Howard
History of the rise and fall of department stores and their replacement by Wal-Mart; despite the tectonic shifts in the economy represented, the book is fairly bloodless.
 
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