Society As A Department Store
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Society As A Department Store
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Author : Ryszard Legutko
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2002
Society As A Department Store written by Ryszard Legutko and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Philosophy categories.
In Society as a Department Store Ryszard Legutko wrestles with the emancipatory ideology promulgated by postmodernists, libertarians, and liberal thinkers. Legutko argues that modern Western liberals have embraced a revolutionary ethic; they have turned their backs on their own cultural heritage, and used its political and ideological apparatus to destroy classical metaphysics and epistemology. The book considers the paradoxical implications of this state of affairs for Eastern European intellectuals arguing that, with the triumph of liberalism over communism, these intellectuals feel compelled to digest an ideology that shares many elements with the oppressive system from which they just liberated themselves. Based on hubris rather than genuine humane concerns, Legutko mourns not simply the loss of faith in classical Western culture, but the way in which that loss is becoming a central point of identity.
The Department Store
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Author : William Lancaster
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1995
The Department Store written by William Lancaster and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.
The department store was brought to its first peak in the middle of the 19th century in Paris. It was seized on and developed as a central feature of American urban life by the pioneers based particularly in Chicago. Subsequently Gordon Selfridge left Chicago to bring the idea to London in the early 20th century.
How Department Stores Are Carried On
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Author : W. B. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
How Department Stores Are Carried On written by W. B. Phillips and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "How Department Stores Are Carried On" by W. B. Phillips. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
From Main Street To Mall
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Author : Vicki Howard
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-04-22
From Main Street To Mall written by Vicki Howard and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-22 with Business & Economics categories.
The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle. Through the early twentieth century, department stores remained centers of social activity in local communities. But after World War II, 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 shuttered or absorbed by national chains. But as the outpouring of nostalgia for lost downtown stores and historic shopping districts would indicate, these vibrant social institutions were intimately connected to American political, cultural, and economic identities. The first national study of the department store industry, 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 Chicago and Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, 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 evidence to demonstrate how the decisions of consumers, government policy makers, 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, From Main Street to Mall shows that department stores were more than just places to shop.
Cathedrals Of Consumption
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Author : Geoffrey Crossick
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-04
Cathedrals Of Consumption written by Geoffrey Crossick and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with History categories.
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.
Asian Department Stores
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Author : Kerrie L. MacPherson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Asian Department Stores written by Kerrie L. MacPherson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Social Science categories.
In this pioneering study of the development of the Asian department store, economists, anthropologists and historians examine various aspects of retailing, business organization, networking and consumerism in the expanding economies of Asia.
Lost Department Stores Of San Francisco
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Author : Anne Evers Hitz
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2020-03-02
Lost Department Stores Of San Francisco written by Anne Evers Hitz and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-02 with Business & Economics categories.
In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clientele, a trip downtown meant dressing up--hats, gloves and stockings required--and going to Blum's for Coffee Crunch cake or Townsend's for creamed spinach. The I. Magnin empire catered to a selective upper-class clientele, while middle-class shoppers loved the Emporium department store with its Bargain Basement and Santa for the kids. Gump's defined good taste, the City of Paris satisfied desires for anything French and edgy, youth-oriented Joseph Magnin ensnared the younger shoppers with the latest trends. Join author Anne Evers Hitz as she looks back at the colorful personalities that created six major stores and defined shopping in San Francisco.
The Evolution Of Retail Systems C 1800 1914
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Author : John Benson
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1992
The Evolution Of Retail Systems C 1800 1914 written by John Benson and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.
It is now recognized that retail systems are crucially important in the development of mature economics. This is a comparative study of how European and North American societies evolved differing retail and distribution systems. It considers historical and geographical variations through a discussion of socio-economic and political factors. It features a closely-matched comparative approach and a comprehensive approach using both historical and geographical methods.
Service And Style
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Author : Jan Whitaker
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2006-08-22
Service And Style written by Jan Whitaker and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-22 with Business & Economics categories.
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Sales Service And Sanctity
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Author : Mildred R. Creighton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Sales Service And Sanctity written by Mildred R. Creighton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Department stores categories.