History of Shopping Reading List (nonfiction)

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No Logo
No Logo 3.89 avg rating — 32,436 ratings
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The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age 4.02 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The World of Goods
The World of Goods 3.72 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Bookshops: A Reader's History
Bookshops: A Reader's History 3.56 avg rating — 919 ratings
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Liberty Style
Liberty Style 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture
Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture 3.96 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Consumer Culture: History, Theory and Politics
Consumer Culture: History, Theory and Politics 3.31 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power
The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power 3.48 avg rating — 293 ratings
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The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures 4.12 avg rating — 2,071 ratings
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power 4.06 avg rating — 12,766 ratings
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
The Theory of the Leisure Class 3.87 avg rating — 3,940 ratings
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The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community 3.86 avg rating — 982 ratings
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Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter
Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter 3.74 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting
The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting 3.01 avg rating — 307 ratings
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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies 3.91 avg rating — 3,747 ratings
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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer: And How It Rose Again
The Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer: And How It Rose Again 3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability 3.84 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Coming of the Mass Market, 1850-1914
The Coming of the Mass Market, 1850-1914 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon 4.14 avg rating — 76,325 ratings
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A Very British Revolution:150 Years of John Lewis
A Very British Revolution:150 Years of John Lewis 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores
Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores 4.25 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End.
Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End. 3.95 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again
Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again 3.82 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Marks & Spencer 1884-1984: A Centenary History.
Marks & Spencer 1884-1984: A Centenary History. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Rich's: A Southern Institution
Rich's: A Southern Institution 4.25 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750
Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750 4.21 avg rating — 302 ratings
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Consuming Visions: Accumulation and Display of Goods in America, 1880-1920 (WINTERTHUR CONFERENCE//
Consuming Visions: Accumulation and Display of Goods in America, 1880-1920 (WINTERTHUR CONFERENCE// 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A History of Shopping
A History of Shopping really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance 3.81 avg rating — 347 ratings
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Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things
Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things 3.48 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism 3.84 avg rating — 773 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by: Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating — 23,215 ratings
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A Strange Business: Art, Culture, and Commerce in Nineteenth Century London
A Strange Business: Art, Culture, and Commerce in Nineteenth Century London 3.56 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Hidden Persuaders
The Hidden Persuaders 3.84 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
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A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta
A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Material Culture and Mass Consumption
Material Culture and Mass Consumption 3.90 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce, and Adventure
The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce, and Adventure 3.81 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste 4.16 avg rating — 3,482 ratings
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The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850
The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart #11)
The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart #11) 3.98 avg rating — 19,767 ratings
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The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture 3.35 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America
Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America 3.93 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America 3.78 avg rating — 3,343 ratings
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The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 4.02 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are
Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are 3.49 avg rating — 250 ratings
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What Would Jesus Buy?: Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopocalypse
What Would Jesus Buy?: Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopocalypse 3.55 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Survival of the Richest: How the Corruption of the Marketplace and the Disparity of Wealth Created the Greatest Conspiracy of All
Survival of the Richest: How the Corruption of the Marketplace and the Disparity of Wealth Created the Greatest Conspiracy of All 3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings
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50 Years of Pleasure: The Illustrated History of Publix Super Markets, Inc.
50 Years of Pleasure: The Illustrated History of Publix Super Markets, Inc. 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate 3.94 avg rating — 101 ratings
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To Market, to Market [UK edition]
To Market, to Market [UK edition] 4.06 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart 4.61 avg rating — 598 ratings
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London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City 3.93 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First 3.82 avg rating — 702 ratings
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate 3.79 avg rating — 4,366 ratings
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Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity
Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity 3.19 avg rating — 42 ratings