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Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The Women's and Infants Furnisher
An Intimate Affair
Author: Jill FieldsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520223691
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Presents the history of twentieth-century lingerie. This book examines the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the 'fashion-industrial complex, ' and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet significant, intimate articles of clothing.
Beauty and Business
Author: Philip ScrantonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136692649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America.
Cultures of Commerce
Author: E. BrownPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137071826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
While historians have explored the impact on workers of changes in American business, the broader impact on other cultural forms, and vice versa, has not been widely studied. This anthology contributes to the debate at the intersection of business history and the study of cultural forms, ranging from material to visual culture to literature.
Chas. H. Fuller's Advertisers' Directory of Leading Newspapers and Magazines
Author: The Clothier and Furnisher
Author: The Bon Marché
Author: Michael B. MillerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691034942
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In this comprehensive social history of the Bon Marché, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, Michael Miller explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the new emporia so vividly dramatized. Through an original interpretation of paternalism, public images, and family-firm relationships, he shows how this new business enterprise succeeded in reconciling traditional values with the coming of an age of mass consumption and bureaucracy.
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