Vicki Howard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicki Howard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicki |
| FAMILY NAME | Howard |
| SIGNATURE | HOWARD V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Revolution And Empire
Shopping emerged as a special pleasure and problem during the period between the revolutionary upheavals of the late 18th century and the opening salvoes of the Great War. New shops, new products, new class and gender ideologies, new standards of comfort and hygiene, and rising living standards for some meant that people, especially women, spent more time shopping and engaging in consumer-oriented activities beyond the walls of the shop. At the s…
‘History of department stores
Shopping as popular culture in America
This thought piece focuses on the emergence of shopping as a popular cultural form in the United States in the period roughly before 1920. Drawing on both the history of these practices and the popular cultural images they generated, it argues that while economic exchanges have always had the potential for cultural conflict, resistance, or negotiation, shopping’s emergence as a popular leisure pastime and a pleasurable entertainment was closely t…
Issue 6.1
Selling Out or Buying In
Reviewed by: Selling Out or Buying In?: Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985 by Michael Dawson Vicki Howard Dawson, Michael – Selling Out or Buying In?: Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. 224. North Americans, today, shop around the clock, every day of the week. The internet has of course made almost every retail service or outlet available 24-7. Before t…
The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing
Karen M. Dunak. As Long as We Both Shall Love
Journal Article Karen M. Dunak. As Long as We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America. Get access Karen M. Dunak. As Long as We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America. New York: New York University Press. 2013. Pp. x, 244. $39.00. Vicki Howard Vicki Howard Hartwick College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 3, …
Modernizing Main Street
Reviewed by: Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal Vicki Howard (bio) Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal. By Gabrielle Esperdy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. x+307. $35. Between 1934 and 1943, American retailers modernized their storefronts with the help of $4 to $6 billion in low-interest loans and cash payments from federally secured private lenders. …
American consumer society, 1865–2005
The Biggest Small-Town Store in America”
The case study of Bresee's Department Store in Oneonta, New York, suggests that small-town department stores were not necessarily fully “modern” by the early twentieth century. This article demonstrates how modern, big-store, business methods came later and documents how earlier modes of trade, such as credit and bartering, persisted into the early twentieth century, even in non-rural, northern contexts. Preliminary findings suggest that eliminat…
Imagining Consumers
Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning. By Regina Blaszczyk. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 380 pages. $39.95 (cloth). SCHOLARS INTERESTED IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCtion must read Regina Blaszczyk's Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning. The title of Blaszczyk's book captures the work's major contribution to the field of consumer culture studi…
At the Curve Exchange”
Beauty culture shaped the work experiences of women factory operatives and office staff at the Maidenform company in complex ways during the 1940s and 1950s. Through advertising, the company newsletter, beauty contests, “Pin-Up of the Month” competitions, and the ultra-feminine form made possible by the company's brassieres and girdles, Maidenform helped define postwar commercial beauty culture. Maidenform employees also had a hand in defining be…
The Biggest Small-Town Store in America”
The case study of Bresee's Department Store in Oneonta, New York, suggests that small-town department stores were not necessarily fully “modern” by the early twentieth century. This article demonstrates how modern, big-store, business methods came later and documents how earlier modes of trade, such as credit and bartering, persisted into the early twentieth century, even in non-rural, northern contexts. Preliminary findings suggest that eliminat…
At the Curve Exchange”
Beauty culture shaped the work experiences of women factory operatives and office staff at the Maidenform company in complex ways during the 1940s and 1950s. Through advertising, the company newsletter, beauty contests, “Pin-Up of the Month” competitions, and the ultra-feminine form made possible by the company's brassieres and girdles, Maidenform helped define postwar commercial beauty culture. Maidenform employees also had a hand in defining be…
At the Curve Exchange”
Beauty culture shaped the work experiences of women factory operatives and office staff at the Maidenform company in complex ways during the 1940s and 1950s. Through advertising, the company newsletter, beauty contests, “Pin-Up of the Month” competitions, and the ultra-feminine form made possible by the company's brassieres and girdles, Maidenform helped define postwar commercial beauty culture. Maidenform employees also had a hand in defining be…
Imagining Consumers
Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning. By Regina Blaszczyk. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 380 pages. $39.95 (cloth). SCHOLARS INTERESTED IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCtion must read Regina Blaszczyk's Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning. The title of Blaszczyk's book captures the work's major contribution to the field of consumer culture studi…
The Biggest Small-Town Store in America”
The case study of Bresee's Department Store in Oneonta, New York, suggests that small-town department stores were not necessarily fully “modern” by the early twentieth century. This article demonstrates how modern, big-store, business methods came later and documents how earlier modes of trade, such as credit and bartering, persisted into the early twentieth century, even in non-rural, northern contexts. Preliminary findings suggest that eliminat…
Modernizing Main Street
Reviewed by: Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal Vicki Howard (bio) Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal. By Gabrielle Esperdy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. x+307. $35. Between 1934 and 1943, American retailers modernized their storefronts with the help of $4 to $6 billion in low-interest loans and cash payments from federally secured private lenders. …
American consumer society, 1865–2005
Karen M. Dunak. As Long as We Both Shall Love
Journal Article Karen M. Dunak. As Long as We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America. Get access Karen M. Dunak. As Long as We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America. New York: New York University Press. 2013. Pp. x, 244. $39.00. Vicki Howard Vicki Howard Hartwick College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 3, …
The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing
Selling Out or Buying In
Reviewed by: Selling Out or Buying In?: Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985 by Michael Dawson Vicki Howard Dawson, Michael – Selling Out or Buying In?: Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. 224. North Americans, today, shop around the clock, every day of the week. The internet has of course made almost every retail service or outlet available 24-7. Before t…
Issue 6.1
‘History of department stores
Shopping as popular culture in America
This thought piece focuses on the emergence of shopping as a popular cultural form in the United States in the period roughly before 1920. Drawing on both the history of these practices and the popular cultural images they generated, it argues that while economic exchanges have always had the potential for cultural conflict, resistance, or negotiation, shopping’s emergence as a popular leisure pastime and a pleasurable entertainment was closely t…
A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Revolution And Empire
Shopping emerged as a special pleasure and problem during the period between the revolutionary upheavals of the late 18th century and the opening salvoes of the Great War. New shops, new products, new class and gender ideologies, new standards of comfort and hygiene, and rising living standards for some meant that people, especially women, spent more time shopping and engaging in consumer-oriented activities beyond the walls of the shop. At the s…
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