The Department Store: A Social History.

Abstract

Introduction - the first carnival of the bourgeoisie the proto-department store in northern Britain 1837-1870 Paris and the triumph of the Grand Magasin luxury democratized the American contribution to department store development - Field, Macey and Wannamaker the drummer from the land of Oz - Gordon H. Selfridge and the Americanization of British stores the inter-war department store - a golden age? theories on consumer society -themes, trends and problems women and department stores - some economic, political and sexual ambiguities behind the counter -work and the department store the department store and modern society.