Description: Big Box USA : The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores, Hardcover by Elmore, Bart (EDT); Gross, Rachel S. (EDT); Sheu, Sherri (EDT), ISBN 1646425928, ISBN-13 9781646425921, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century. From the rural South to the frigid North, from inside stores to ecologies far beyond, this book examines the relationships that make up one of the most visible features of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century American life. The rise of big box retail since the 1960s has transformed environments on both local and global scales. Almost everyone has explored the aisles of big box stores. The allure of “everyday low prices” and brightly colored products of every kind connect shoppers with a global marketplace. Contributors join a growing conversation between business and environmental history, addressing the ways American retail institutions have affected physical and cultural ecologies around the world. Essays on Walmart, Target, Cabela’s, REI, and Bass Pro Shops assess the “bigness” of these superstores from “smokestacks to coat racks” and contend that their ecological impacts are not limited to the footprints of parking lots and manufacturing but also play a didactic role in educating consumers about their relationships with the environment. A model for historians seeking to bring business and environmental histories together in their analyses of merchant capital’s role in the landscapes of everyday life and how it has remade human relationships with nature, Big Box USA is a must-read for students and scholars of the environment, business, sustainability, retail professionals, and a general audience.
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Book Title: Big Box USA : The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retai
Number of Pages: 234 Pages
Publication Name: Big Box USA : the Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Industries / Retailing, Environmental Conservation & Protection, United States / 20th Century, Commerce
Item Weight: 15.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Rachel S. Gross
Subject Area: Nature, Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 9.1 in
Series: Path to Open Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
