100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture

100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture

by Timothy B. Spears (Author)

Synopsis

Drawing on sources such as diaries, advice manuals and autobiographies, this work shows how travelling salesmen from the early-18th century to the 1920s shaped the customs of life on the road and helped to develop the modern consumer culture in the United States.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 324
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven & London
Published: 04 Sep 2009

ISBN 10: 0300070667
ISBN 13: 9780300070668