The Bon Marché
Subtitle: bourgeois culture and the department store, 1869-1920
By: Michael B. Miller
Contributors: Miller, Michael Barry, 1945-
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1981-01-01
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Description: In this comprehensive social history of the Bon Marche, the Parisian department store that was the world's largest before 1914, Michael Miller explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the new emporia so vividly dramatized. Through an original interpretation of paternalism, public images, and family-firm relationships, he shows how this new business enterprise succeeded in reconciling traditional values with the coming of an age of mass consumption and bureaucracy.
Notes: Ordered November 7, 1994.

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