Main entry:

Longstreth, Richard W.

Title & Author:

The American department store transformed, 1920-1960 / Richard Longstreth.

Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2010.

Description:

xi, 323 pages : illustrations (some color), map, plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
"In association with the Center for American Places at Columbia College, Chicago."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-312) and index.
Bigger and bigger stores -- Modernizing stores -- Service beyond the stores -- Parking for stores -- Branch stores -- Station wagon stores -- Stores in shopping centers -- Stores make the mall -- Stores and the city.

Summary:

"No one knows more about the retail landscape of America than Richard Longstreth, and this is his most important contribution to date. Longstreth deftly combines architectural history, business history, and urban history to create a compelling story and a work of reference that will be the basis for scholarly exploration for many years to come." Robert Bruegmann, author of Sprawl: A Compact History.
"Through a wonderful blend of design, business, and urban history, Richard Longstreth superbly demonstrates that the retail landscape in twentieth-century America has been a constantly shifting one. Anyone who has ever been dazzled by a department store will likewise be enticed by this book." Lizabeth Cohen, author of A. Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
"Superb! ... I simply cannot contain my respect and enthusiasm for the achievement that this book represents. A great metropolitan institution has found the historian it deserves." Robert Fishman, author of Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia.
"A work of prodigious scholarship that is clearly written and profusely illustrated, Richard Longstreth's new book is a monumental achievement, a major contribution not only to the history of retailing in the United States but also to the history of the built environment in the twentieth century." Robert M. Fogelson, author of Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950
"Original, exhaustively researched, and a very substantial contribution. There is no directly comparable work; this will become the authoritative source on department stores in this period." Michael Holleran, author of Boston's "Changeful Times": Origins of Preservation and Planning in America.
"The department store encompassed much that was exciting and much that was unsettling in twentieth-century America. Only Richard Longstreth has the broad vision, deep knowledge, and love of his subject to give this central institution its due. The American Department Store Transformed confirms Longstreth's standing as our premier interpreter of the twentieth-century commercial city." Dell Upton, author of Architecture in the United States --Book Jacket

ISBN:

9780300149388 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300149387

Subject:

Department stores United States History 20th century.
Grands magasins États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Industry.
Department stores.
Architektur
Warenhaus
Stadtentwicklung
Warenhuizen.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Varuhus Förenta staterna historia 1945-
United States.
USA
Verenigde Staten.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 267179
Call No.: BIB 199215
Status: Available