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Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada - Softcover

Belisle, Donica

 
9780774819480: Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0774819480 ISBN 13: 9780774819480
Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

The experience of walking down a store aisle - replete with displays, salespeople, and infinite choice - is so common we often forget retail has a short history. Retail Nation traces Canada’s transformation into a modern consumer society back to an era - 1890 to 1940 - when department stores such as Eaton’s ruled the shopping scene and promised to strengthen the nation. Department stores emerge as agents of modern nationalism, but the nation they helped to define - white, consumerist, middle-class - was more limited, and contested, than nostalgic portraits of the early department store suggest.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Donica Bel isle is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Athabasca University

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The experience of walking down a store aisle -- replete with displays, salespeople, and infinite choice -- is so common we often forget retail has a short history. Retail Nation traces Canada's transformation into a modern consumer society back to an era -- 1890 to 1940 -- when department stores such as Eaton's ruled the shopping scene and promised to strengthen the nation. Department stores emerge as agents of modern nationalism, but the nation they helped to define -- white, consumerist, middle-class -- was more limited, and contested, than nostalgic portraits of the early department store suggest.

Aus dem Klappentext

The experience of walking down a store aisle -- replete with displays, salespeople, and infinite choice -- is so common we often forget retail has a short history. Retail Nation traces Canada's transformation into a modern consumer society back to an era -- 1890 to 1940 -- when department stores such as Eaton's ruled the shopping scene and promised to strengthen the nation. Department stores emerge as agents of modern nationalism, but the nation they helped to define -- white, consumerist, middle-class -- was more limited, and contested, than nostalgic portraits of the early department store suggest.

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Verlag
University of British Columbia Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0774819480
ISBN 13 
9780774819480
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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