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Service and style how the American department store fashioned the middle class
| Title | Service and style how the American department store fashioned the middle class |
| Names | Whitaker, Jan. |
| Book Number | DB067264 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Book |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | Social and cultural history of large, independently owned, downtown department stores from their 1870s beginnings to their post-WWII decline following the proliferation of chain and discount retailers. Examines their impact on fashion, gender roles, urban development, and consumerism. Discusses the redefinition of middle-class living standards to include material expression. 2006. |
| Narrator | Allison, Kristin. |
| Local Subject | Adult Book - AD |
| Adult Non-Fiction - AN | |
| Short Book - SH | |
| Business - BUS | |
| History - HST | |
| History, United States - HUS | |
| Home economics & Homemaking - HOME | |
| Audience Notes | Female narrator. |
| LC Subject | Department stores - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century |
| Department stores - United States - History - 20th century |
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| Middle class - United States - History - 20th century |
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| Call Number | 381.1410973 ANF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 2006 |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, the Library of Congress, 2006 Talking Book Publishers, recording studio). |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006. 0312326351 |