Building a Market : The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914-1960 Hardback
by Richard (University of Bristol, UK) Harris
Part of the Historical Studies of Urban America series
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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 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:27/08/2012
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- ISBN:9780226317663
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:27/08/2012
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- ISBN:9780226317663