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Author

Esperdy, Gabrielle M.

Title Modernizing Main Street [electronic resource] : architecture and consumer culture in the New Deal / Gabrielle Esperdy.

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	x, 307 p. : ill., map.
Series	[Center books on American places]
	Center books on American places.
Note	Series title taken from book jacket.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Main Street, U.S.A -- The New Deal on Main Street -- Marketing modernization -- The architecture of consumption -- Modernism on Main Street -- Conclusion: a Main Street modernized -- A note on sources.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Storefronts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Commercial buildings -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	New Deal, 1933-1939.
	Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780226218007 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0226218007 (cloth : alk. paper)