Land of Desire
Subtitle: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: September 6, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780679754114
Subjects: History; Sales promotion; History - General History; History: American; USA; Social aspects; Commerce; General; United States - 19th Century/Turn of the Century; History / United States / 20th Century; United States - 20th Century; Department stores; United States
First sentence: "They have emerged," wrote economist Edward Mead, husband of Emily Fogg Mead, of the new business corporations, in 1910, "like the trees in the primeval forest, wide and deep in the desires and necessities of mankind."