Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture

by Sharon Zukin

Book Overview

This accessible, smart, and expansive book on shopping's impact on American life is in part historical, stretching back to the mid-19th century, yet also has a contemporary focus, with material on recent trends in shopping from the internet to Zagat's guides.

Drawing inspiration from both Pierre Bourdieu's work and Walter Benjamin's seminal essay on the shopping arcades of 19th-century Paris, Zukin explores the forces that have made shopping...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415950430
• ISBN13: 9780415950435
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"