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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784014503321

Titolo

Consuming Germany and the Cold War [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David F. Crew

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Berg, 2003

ISBN

1-282-66219-8

9786612662195

1-84520-621-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Leisure, consumption, and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

CrewDavid F. <1946->

Disciplina

339.4/7/094309045

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Germany (East)

Consumption (Economics) - Germany (West)

Consumer behavior - Germany (East)

Consumer behavior - Germany (West)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 quickly 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 the Cold War assesses why East Germany increasingly fell behind in this competition and how the failure...