Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequences. By Ann Satterthwaite. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. 1, 386

Gary Cross

The Journal of Economic History, 2003, vol. 63, issue 1, 296-297

Abstract: Adding to the growing list of retrospective studies of shopping and consumption is this engaged survey of the impact of American retail trade on community culture and social interaction. Although the author (a city planner in Washington, DC) is broadly within the tradition of Jane Jacobs and other critics of the commercialization of urban space, hers is a contemporary, well-informed, and nuanced judgment of the impact of malls, remote retail, big box stores, and other expressions of contemporary shopping. Even though this book may not meet the expectations of the professional historian, it does attempts to put very present-minded concerns about the social impact of contemporary retailing trends into a historical context.

Date: 2003
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