Reluctant capitalists : bookselling and the culture of consumption / Laura J. Miller.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.Description: x, 316 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB 801 M648r 2007
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Contents:
Commercial culture and its discontents -- From dry goods merchant to Internet mogul : bookselling through American history -- Providing for the sovereign consumer : selecting and recommending books -- Designing the bookstore for the standardized consumer -- Serving the entertained consumer : the multifunction bookstore -- Bargaining with the rational consumer : selling the low-cost book -- The revolt of the retailers : independent bookseller activism -- Pursuing the citizen-consumer : consumption as politics.
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HB 801 M648r 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000058401

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-297) and index.

Commercial culture and its discontents -- From dry goods merchant to Internet mogul : bookselling through American history -- Providing for the sovereign consumer : selecting and recommending books -- Designing the bookstore for the standardized consumer -- Serving the entertained consumer : the multifunction bookstore -- Bargaining with the rational consumer : selling the low-cost book -- The revolt of the retailers : independent bookseller activism -- Pursuing the citizen-consumer : consumption as politics.

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