Spending Spree: The History of American Shopping

by Cynthia Overbeck Bix

Ka-ching Ever stop to think how our modern-day shopping culture came to be? In the early 1800s, stores were few and far between in the United States. General stores supplied everything from fabric and flour to handsaws and clocks. As the country grew, mail-order catalogs arrived at homes across the country, Mom and Pop specialty shops sprang up along Main Street, and later, shopping malls and big box megastores thrived in the suburbs. Then online...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467710172
• ISBN13: 9781467710176
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 5 to Postsecondary