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Building a Market
Richard Harris
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Description for Building a Market
Hardcover. Each year, North Americans spend as much money fixing up their homes as they do buying new ones. This title charts the rise of the home improvement industry in the United States and Canada from the end of World War I into the late 1950s. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 472 pages, 62 halftones, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; KNS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 771.
Each year, North Americans spend as much money fixing up their homes as they do buying new ones. This obsession with improving our dwellings has given rise to a multibillion-dollar industry that includes countless books, consumer magazines, a cable television network, and thousands of home improvement stores. "Building a Market" charts the rise of the home improvement industry in the United States and Canada from the end of World War I into the late 1950s. Drawing on the insights of business, social, and urban historians, and making use of a wide range of documentary sources, Richard Harris shows how the ... Read more
Each year, North Americans spend as much money fixing up their homes as they do buying new ones. This obsession with improving our dwellings has given rise to a multibillion-dollar industry that includes countless books, consumer magazines, a cable television network, and thousands of home improvement stores. "Building a Market" charts the rise of the home improvement industry in the United States and Canada from the end of World War I into the late 1950s. Drawing on the insights of business, social, and urban historians, and making use of a wide range of documentary sources, Richard Harris shows how the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226317663
SKU
V9780226317663
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About Richard Harris
Richard Harris is professor of geography at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He is the author of Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900-1950 and Creeping Conformity: How Canada Become Suburban, 1900-1960.
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