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One nation under goods : malls and the seductions of American shopping
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- Creator
- James J. Farrell
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Books, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781588341525, 1588341526
- OCLC
- ocm51587421
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-320) and index.
- Part One. Producing consumption: how malls prepare for us -- Inventing malls -- Designing Malls -- The nature of malls -- Retail designs -- -- Part Two. Producing consumers: how we learn to shop -- Home shopping -- Hanging out at the mall -- Christmas shopping -- -- Part Three. Mallpractices: what we do at the mall -- Just looking -- Shopping for the fun of it -- Making a purchase -- -- Part Four. It's a mall world, after all -- The politics of no politics -- The world in a shopping mall -- Shopping center world -- Shopping for a better world