The Urban Department Store in America, 1850–1930

The Urban Department Store in America, 1850–1930
ISBN-10
140944743X
ISBN-13
9781409447436
Category
Art
Pages
258
Language
English
Published
2014-12-28
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Dr Louisa Iarocci

Description

In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the physical building type is the foundation of this comprehensive architectural study, Iarocci reaches beyond the analysis of the brick and mortar to reconsider how the ‘spaces of selling’ were culturally-produced spaces, as well as the product of interrelated economic, social, technological and aesthetic forces.

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