Cathedrals of consumption : the European department store, 1850-1939 / edited by Geoffrey Crossick and Serge Jaumain.

" Revised versions of papers first discussed at a small colloquium hosted by the Free University of Brussels"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The world of the department store : distribution, culture and social change / Geoffrey Crossick and Serge Jaumain -- The newness of the department store : a view from the eighteenth century / Claire Walsh -- Department stores as retail innovation in Germany : a historical-geographical perspective on the period 1870-1914 / Tim Coles -- 'Doing the shops' at Christmas : women, men and the department store in England, c. 1880-1914 / Christopher P. Hosgood -- Marianne in the department store : gender and the politics of consumption in turn-of-the-century Paris / Lisa Tiersten -- Theft and thieves in German department stores, 1895-1930 : a discourse on morality, crime and gender / Uwe Spiekermann -- Selling dreams : advertising strategies from grands magasins to supermarkets in Ghent, 1900-1960 / Donald Weber -- Acts of consumption : musical comedy and the desire of exchange / Erika D. Rappaport -- Department stores and middle-class consumerism in Budapest, 1896-1939 / Gábor Gyáni -- Les Magasins Réunis : from the provinces to Paris, from art nouveau to art deco / Catherine Coley -- From Messel to Mendelsohn : German department store architecture in defence of urban and economic change / Kathleen James -- Training sales personnel in France between the wars / Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel -- Employers' organisations in French department stores during the inter-war period : between conservatism and innovation / Laurence Badel.

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