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Laura Byrne Paquet
Books by Laura Byrne Paquet
The Urge to Splurge
A Social History of Shopping
People used to haggle in crowded outdoor bazaars. Now we buy collectibles on eBay. Tracing the evolution of shopping from marketplaces to malls, mail order to the Internet, The Urge to Splurge is a chatty, intriguing look at the history and the psychology of one of humankind’s oldest pursuits. Wi...