Title: The Bon Marché
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.
Subjects: Social conditions, Au Bon Marché (Paris, France), History, Paris (france), history, Paris (france), social conditions, Middle class, europe, Department stores, France, commerce, Bon Marché, Popular culture, united states, Historyau bon marché (paris, france)
Places: France, Paris (France)
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century