Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Deborah C. Andrews
Chapter 1: The Spaces of Shopping: An Historical Overview, Sandy Isenstadt
Chapter 2: Woolworth to Wal-Mart: Mass Merchandising and the Changing American Culture of Consumption, Susan Strasser
Chapter 3: Shopping Malls: “Machines for Selling”, David Ames
Chapter 4: Passages: From Arcade to Virtual Arcadia, Lance Winn
Chapter 5: The Shop Around the Corner: Change, Continuity, and the Independent Neighborhood Grocer, Anne Krulikowski
Chapter 6: Farmers’ Markets, Food, and the Architecture of Control, J. Richie Garrison
Chapter 7: Living in a Bubble in the 1950s: Finding the Material Culture of Effervescence, Jay Gitlin
Chapter 8: A Toxic Safari in a Big Box Store, McKay Jenkins
Chapter 9: Secondhand Learning: Using Secondhand Consumerism in the Classroom, Helen Sheumaker
Chapter 10: In Conversation: Community, Women, and Work in the American Garage Sale, Gretchen Herrmann with Martha Rosler
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