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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Community Revitalization Bibliography
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Building a Market
Author: Richard Harris
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226317684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A unique study of how the American Dream came to be—and came to be constantly updated and renovated: ”A pleasure to read.”—American Historical Review 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, magazines, cable shows, and 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 middle-class preference for home ownership first emerged in the 1920s—and how manufacturers, retailers, and the federal government combined to establish the massive home improvement market and a pervasive culture of Do-It-Yourself. Deeply insightful, Building a Market is the carefully crafted history of the emergence and evolution of a home improvement revolution that changed not just American culture but the American landscape as well. “An important topic that deserves to be widely read by scholars of business history, urban history, and social history.”—Journal of American History
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226317684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A unique study of how the American Dream came to be—and came to be constantly updated and renovated: ”A pleasure to read.”—American Historical Review 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, magazines, cable shows, and 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 middle-class preference for home ownership first emerged in the 1920s—and how manufacturers, retailers, and the federal government combined to establish the massive home improvement market and a pervasive culture of Do-It-Yourself. Deeply insightful, Building a Market is the carefully crafted history of the emergence and evolution of a home improvement revolution that changed not just American culture but the American landscape as well. “An important topic that deserves to be widely read by scholars of business history, urban history, and social history.”—Journal of American History
Subject Heading List
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Subject Heading List, Preliminary Edition
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
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Small Business Bibliography
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Category : Small business
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Category : Small business
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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Books and Notes
Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
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Australian national bibliography
Author:
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1818
Book Description
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1818
Book Description
The American Phrenological Journal and Repository of Science, Literature and General Intelligence
Author:
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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