Carried Away
The Invention of Modern Shopping
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9510312M
- ISBN-139780231122740
- ISBN-100231122748
- OCLC Control Number44446357
- OCLC Control Number51566243
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Numbercarriedawayinven00bowl_191
- Library of Congress Control Number00056123
- LibraryThing189086
- Goodreads1050223
Classifications
- LCCHC79.C6B69 2001
Description
"In this book, Rachel Bowlby looks at some of the turning points of twentieth-century consumer history: when department stores gave way to supermarkets; when packaging made everyday things into objects of desire; when self-service created a close, new relationship between shoppers and merchandise. Carried Away looks at arguments about chocolate boxes and bars of soap, at modernist shop windows and supermarket shelves, at Stepford Wives and Rupert Bears - at the many extraordinary ways that modern shopping and shoppers have been imagined and invented."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
It is late in the afternoon and the lines of wide carts loaded up with flatpacks of future furniture stretch back from the row of checkouts.
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