Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future

ISBN-13: 9780198815914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

University Coll Rachel (Professor of Comparative Literature

Opis

Over time, shops have occupied radically different places in cultural arguments and everyday lives. Back to the Shops offers a set of short, often surprising chapters, each one a window into a different shop type or mode of selling.

Recenzje

This is a thoroughly enjoyable book for anyone interested in the twentieth century and it is a good place to start for anyone seeking a social history research project. Rosemary Conely, Open History

O autorze

Rachel Bowlby teaches courses on the history and theory of consumer culture at University College London, where she is Professor of Comparative Literature. Previous books include Just Looking (on department stores), Shopping with Freud, and Carried Away (on supermarkets).