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Laddar... Spree: A Cultural History of Shoppingav Pamela Klaffke
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Starts of strongly by giving the history of the permanent shop or store, the mall, the first department stores. Lags in the middle by giving a listing of movies about shopping and re-printing the lyrics of songs about shopping. It seemed that the author had run out of steam but then the book finishes with interesting chapters on the shopping habits of the bizarre Andy Warhol and a discussion of kleptomania. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Ten years ago, Faith Popcorn declared "the end of shopping" in her bestselling book The Popcorn Report. But from the looks of things, shopping is as pervasive as ever; we are a culture obsessed and beguiled by the desire for consumer goods. Journalist and shopping pundit Pamela Klaffke documents the history of shopping, from a time when cattle were currency to the current age of contemporary shopping phenoms like eBay. Topics covered include: - The history of shopping malls and department stores - The evolution of retail design - Inventions that made shopping easier: the cash register, the shopping cart, the bar code - Information on the largest fashion retail chain (The Gap), the largest retail firm (Wal-Mart) and the world's largest mall (West Edmonton Mall) - Shopping meccas and customs from around the world - The dark side of shopping: kleptomania, shopping addictions, anti-consumerism - The myths: Men Who Hate Shopping and Women Who Love Shoes. Full of fun and informative sidebars and photos, Spree demonstrates that how we shop explains a lot about who we are. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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