Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores
- Big-box retail store AmericaEnvironment
- Categories:Industries
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:April,2024
- Pages:234
- Retail Price:24.95 USD
- Size:152mm×228mm
- Page Views:9
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- Text Color:Black and white
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Review
—Benjamin R. Cohen, Lafayette College
“A significant contribution to environmental history, as well as business and US history generally. Intellectually stimulating and engagingly written.”
—Ai Hisano, University of Tokyo
Description
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 humanrelationships with nature, Big Box USA is a must-read for students and scholars of the environment, business, sustainability, retail professionals, and a general audience.
Author
Bart Elmore is professor of environmental history, a core faculty member of the Sustainability Institute at Ohio State University, and author of the award-winning Citizen Coke, as well as Seed Money and Country Capitalism.
RACHEL S. GROSS
Rachel S. Gross is assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado Denver, where she teaches US environmental, business, and public history. She is the author of Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America.
SHERRI SHEU
Sherri Sheu is the Haas Curatorial Fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia and former councilor-at-large for the American Historical Association.