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A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age

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A Cultural History of Shopping was a Library Journal Best in Reference selection for 2022.

In the modern consumer age that emerged after the First World War, shopping became a ubiquitous cultural practice. Despite its apparent universality, the historicity and contingency of shopping should not be ignored: its meaning was always inextricably linked to the political, material and economic contexts within which it took place. Gendered female for the most part, shopping continued to evoke diff...