Retail Nation

Author : Donica Belisle
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774819497

Get Book

Retail Nation by Donica Belisle Pdf

The experience of walking down a store aisle � replete with displays, salespeople, and infinite choice � is so common we often forget retail has a short history. Retail Nation traces Canada's transformation into a modern consumer society back to an era � 1890 to 1940 � when department stores such as Eaton's ruled the shopping scene and promised to strengthen the nation. Department stores emerge as agents of modern nationalism, but the nation they helped to define � white, consumerist, middle-class � was more limited, and contested, than nostalgic portraits of the early department store suggest.

Author : Jane Nicholas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442616530

Get Book

The Modern Girl by Jane Nicholas Pdf

With her short skirt, bobbed hair, and penchant for smoking, drinking, dancing, and jazz, the “Modern Girl” was a fixture of 1920s Canadian consumer culture. She appeared in art, film, fashion, and advertising, as well as on the streets of towns from coast to coast. In The Modern Girl, Jane Nicholas argues that this feminine image was central to the creation of what it meant to be modern and female in Canada. Using a wide range of visual and textual evidence, Nicholas illuminates both the frequent public debates about female appearance and the realities of feminine self-presentation. She argues that women played an active and thoughtful role in their embrace of modern consumer culture, even when it was at the risk of serious social, economic, and cultural penalties. The first book to fully examine the “Modern Girl”’s place in Canadian culture, The Modern Girl will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of gender, sexuality, and the body in the modern world.

Author : Louisa Iarocci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351539807

Get Book

"The Urban Department Store in America, 1850?930 " by Louisa Iarocci Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the physical building type is the foundation of this comprehensive architectural study, Louisa Iarocci reaches beyond the analysis of the bricks and mortar to reconsider how the ?spaces of selling? were culturally-produced spaces, as well as the product of interrelated economic, social, technological and aesthetic forces. The agenda of the book is three-fold; to address the lack of a comprehensive architectural study of the nineteenth century department store in the United States; to expand the analysis of the commercial city as a built and represented entity; and to continue recent scholarly efforts that seek to understand commercial space as a historically specific and a conceptually perceived construct. The Urban Department Store in America, 1850-1930 acts as a corrective to a current imbalance in the historiography of this retailing institution that tends to privilege its role as an autonomous ?modern? building type. Instead, Iarocci documents the development of the department store as an urban institution that grew out of the built space of the city and the lived spaces of its occupants.

Author : Patrizia Gentile,Jane Nicholas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442663169

Get Book

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History by Patrizia Gentile,Jane Nicholas Pdf

From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Showcasing a variety of methodological approaches, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History includes essays on many themes that engage with the larger historical relationship between the body and nation: medicine and health, fashion and consumer culture, citizenship and work, and more. The contributors reflect on the intersections of bodies with the concept of nationhood, as well as how understandings of the body are historically contingent. The volume is capped off with a critical introductory chapter by the editors on the history of bodies and the development of the body as a category of analysis.

Author : Alison Marshall
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774828024

Get Book

Cultivating Connections by Alison Marshall Pdf

In the late 1870s, thousands of Chinese men left coastal British Columbia and the western United States and headed east. For them, the Prairies were a land of opportunity; there, they could open shops and potentially earn enough money to become merchants. The result of almost a decade's research and more than three hundred interviews, Cultivating Connections tells the stories of some of Prairie Canada's Chinese settlers - men and women from various generations who navigated cultural difference. These stories reveal the critical importance of networks in coping with experiences of racism and establishing a successful life on the Prairies.

Author : Gallus Thomann
Publisher : New York : United States Brewers' Association
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Alcoholic beverage industry
ISBN : UOM:39015032441894

Get Book

The Nation's Drink-bill, Economically Considered by Gallus Thomann Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2546 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104236049

Get Book

Hearings by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Temperance
ISBN : WISC:89066349952

Get Book

Proceedings of the ... National Temperance Convention by Anonim Pdf

Author : Graham Broad
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774823661

Get Book

A Small Price to Pay by Graham Broad Pdf

We often picture life on the Canadian home front as a time of austerity, as a time when women went to work and men went to war. Graham Broad explodes this myth of home front sacrifice by bringing to light the contradictions of consumer society in wartime. Governments pressured Depression-weary citizens to save for the sake of the nation, but Canadians had money in their pockets, and advertisers tempted them with fresh groceries, glamorous movies, and new cars and appliances. Broad reveals that our "greatest generation" was not impervious to temptation but rather embarked on one of the biggest spending booms in our nation's history.

Author : National Retail Merchants Association (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Dry-goods
ISBN : MINN:31951D00139413W

Get Book

Confidential Bulletin of the National Retail Dry Goods Association by National Retail Merchants Association (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Drugstores
ISBN : OSU:32435021801261

Get Book

The National Druggist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

NATION'S BUSINESS: FEBRUARY 1993 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Brewing
ISBN : MINN:31951D00007095J

Get Book

Brewers' Guardian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jocelyne Praud,Sandrine Dauphin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774819466

Get Book

Parity Democracy by Jocelyne Praud,Sandrine Dauphin Pdf

In 1999 and 2000, France adopted laws to ensure equal access to elected office for women and men. Parity Democracy explores the evolution and influence of France's gender parity reforms, from their historical roots to their recent extension beyond the electoral sphere. Drawing on extensive interviews, as well as on European and French legal documents, Praud and Dauphin show that although these reforms have not dramatically boosted women's representation in the National Assembly, they have set in motion a process of feminization in the electoral sphere that bodes well for the future of parity democracy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Floristry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094730151

Get Book

Canadian Florist by Anonim Pdf