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Paperback From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store Book

ISBN: 0812224396

ISBN13: 9780812224399

From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store

(Part of the American Business, Politics, and Society Series)

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The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle. Through the early twentieth century, department stores remained centers of social activity in local communities. But after World War II, suburban growth...

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