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Collecting in a consumer society

"With a new preface, this new paperback edition outlines the history of museum collecting from ancient civilizations to the present. It also looks at aspects of consumer culture - advertising, department stores, mass merchandising, consumer desire, and how this relates to the activity of collecting."--BOOK JACKET

Print Book, English, 2001
Routledge, London, 2001