Spree
A Cultural History of Shopping
ISBN-13: 9781551521435
Contributor(s): Pamela Klaffke
Subject: Popular Culture
Publisher Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Publication Date: 01-12-2003
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£16.99
About the book
In this age of high consumption shopping is going stronger than ever as a national pastime. We are a culture obsessed and beguiled by the desire for consumer goods. Journalist and shopping addict Klaffke documents the history of shopping, from a time when cattle were currency to the current age of contemporary shopping phenomenon like QVC and eBay. From the history of the mall, to a look at the darker side of shopping culture - kleptomania, shopping addictions, anti-consumerism - this is the definitive chronology of the materialist age.