{"product_id":"retail-nation-donica-belisle-9780774819480","title":"Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eRetail Nation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donica Belisle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0774819480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780774819480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Donica Belisle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072632549631,"sku":"9780774819480","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c669d4f-0568-434f-8228-e7c0fb89e16a.jpg?v=1685443117","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/retail-nation-donica-belisle-9780774819480","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}