Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada by Belisle, Donica

Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774819473)

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Format: Hardcover
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Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada by Belisle, Donica

Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada

$105.00
Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada by Belisle, Donica

Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada

$105.00
Format: Hardcover
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The experience of walking down a store aisle - replete with displays, salespeople, and infinite choice - is so common we often forget retail has a short history. Retail Nation traces Canada's transformation into a modern consumer society back to an era - 1890 to 1940 - when department stores such as Eaton's ruled the shopping scene and promised to strengthen the nation. Department stores emerge as agents of modern nationalism, but the nation they helped to define - white, consumerist, middle-class - was more limited, and contested, than nostalgic portraits of the early department store suggest.

Author: Donica Belisle
ISBN-10: 0774819472
ISBN-13: 9780774819473
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2011
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 74
By Donica Belisle
By Donica Belisle
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Donica Bel isle is an assistant professor of women's and gender studies at Athabasca University

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