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Consuming Germany in the Co...
Sitting in the ruins of the Third Reich, most Germans wanted to know which of the two post-war German states would erase the material traces of their wartime suffering most quickly and most thoroughly. Consumption and the quality of everyday life qui ckly became important battlefields upon which the East-West conflict would be fought. This book focuses on the competing types of consumer societies that developed over time in the two Germanies and the legacy each left. Consuming Germany in th e Cold War assesses why East Germany increasingly fell behind in this competition and how the failur
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monografia Rebiun27393341 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun27393341 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 100719s2003 enka ob 101 0 eng d 2003010058 71815629 701856404 732606123 732807315 733240486 748605742 764542239 893333748 1113256971 1135572937 1162283053 1170750155 9781845206215 electronic bk.) 1845206215 electronic bk.) 1859737668 1859737714 pbk.) 9781859737712 pbk.) 9781859737668 1282662198 9781282662193 9786612662195 6612662190 9781350048232 online) 1350048232 N$T eng pn N$T EBLCP YDXCP OCLCQ E7B CNKEY OCLCQ FVL OCLCQ VLR OCLCF NLGGC OCLCO OCLCQ NRU IDEBK OCLCO DEBSZ OCLCO OCL OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO ZCU OCLCQ MERUC OCLCQ U3W VNS VTS CEF AGLDB ICG REC OCLCQ STF DKC OCLCQ UKAHL UKMGB OCLCQ VLY AJS YDX UEJ LUN UKUOP BLOOM OCLCO e-ge--- e-gw--- POL 023000 bisacsh BUS 039000 bisacsh Consuming Germany in the Cold War edited by David F. Crew Oxford New York Berg 2003 Oxford New York Oxford New York Berg 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) illustrations 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Leisure, consumption, and culture Includes bibliographical references and index Consuming Germany in the Cold War : consumption and national identity in East and West Germany, 1949-1989, an introduction / David F. Crew -- "A world in miniature" : the Leipzig Trade Fairs in the 1950s and East German consumer citizenship / Katharine Pence -- On the seam between socialism and capitalism : East German fashion shows / Judd Stitziel -- The order of substitutes : plastic consumer goos in the Volkswirtschaft and everyday domestic life in the GDR / Eli Rubin -- Born again in the gospel of refreshment? : Coca-colonization and the re-making of postwar German identity / Jeff R. Schutts -- Miracles for sale : consumer displays and advertising in postwar West Germany / S. Jonathan Wiesen -- Drugs, consumption and internationalization in Hamburg, 1960-1968 / Robert P. Stephens Sitting in the ruins of the Third Reich, most Germans wanted to know which of the two post-war German states would erase the material traces of their wartime suffering most quickly and most thoroughly. Consumption and the quality of everyday life qui ckly became important battlefields upon which the East-West conflict would be fought. This book focuses on the competing types of consumer societies that developed over time in the two Germanies and the legacy each left. Consuming Germany in th e Cold War assesses why East Germany increasingly fell behind in this competition and how the failur English Consumption (Economics)- Germany (East)- Congresses Consumption (Economics)- Germany (West)- Congresses Consumer behavior- Germany (East)- Congresses Consumer behavior- Germany (West)- Congresses POLITICAL SCIENCE- Economic Conditions BUSINESS & ECONOMICS- Economics- Macroeconomics Consumer behavior Consumption (Economics) Consumentengedrag Consumentisme Koude Oorlog Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Germany (East) Germany (West) Electronic books Conference papers and proceedings Crew, David F. 1946-) Bloomsbury Cultural History. Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Cultural History. Print version Consuming Germany and the Cold War. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003 9781859737668 (DLC) 2003010058 (OCoLC)52251298 Leisure, consumption, and culture