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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12008680.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-275) and index.".
- catalog description "The haunted superstore -- The mobile shopper -- The silent salesman -- The passer-by and the shop window -- The package -- The first shoppers -- The supermarket's beginnings -- The Dayton connection -- The jungle and other post-war supermarkets -- The reader in the supermarket -- The shopper in the survey -- The deviant, the checkout, and the future.".
- catalog extent "281 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0231122748 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog subject "306.3/082 21".
- catalog subject "Consumption (Economics) History.".
- catalog subject "Department stores History.".
- catalog subject "HC79.C6 B69 2001".
- catalog subject "Shopping History.".
- catalog subject "Supermarkets History.".
- catalog subject "Women consumers History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The haunted superstore -- The mobile shopper -- The silent salesman -- The passer-by and the shop window -- The package -- The first shoppers -- The supermarket's beginnings -- The Dayton connection -- The jungle and other post-war supermarkets -- The reader in the supermarket -- The shopper in the survey -- The deviant, the checkout, and the future.".
- catalog title "Carried away : the invention of modern shopping / Rachel Bowlby.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".