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Authors: Kim Humphery
ISBN-13: 9780521626309, ISBN-10: 0521626307
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Kim Humphery

Book Synopsis

This critique of the supermarket in twentieth-century Australia includes history, cultural studies and oral history.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction1
1The Discovery of the Consumer21
2Really Modern Retailing39
3Engineering the Shop61
4She Likes to Look79
5Tomorrow's Shop Today100
6Living the Transformation121
7Magic Futures143
8Strangers in Paradise161
9Everyday Shopping178
10Towards the Exit203
Notes213
Bibliography245
Index264

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