Modernizing Main Street :

Esperdy, Gabrielle M.

Modernizing Main Street : architecture and consumer culture in the New Deal / Gabrielle Esperdy. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. - x, 307 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. - [Center books on American places] .

Series title taken from book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Main Street, U.S.A -- The New Deal on Main Street -- Marketing modernization -- The architecture of consumption -- Modernism on Main Street -- Conclusion: a Main Street modernized -- A note on sources.

9780226218007 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226218007 (cloth : alk. paper)

2007023927

GBA817441 bnb

014519132 Uk


Storefronts--History--United States--20th century.
Commercial buildings--History--United States--20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Consumption (Economics)--History--United States--20th century.

NA6225 / .E87 2008

725/.2097309043
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