1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694350103321

Titolo

The Homeland Security Information Network : an update on DHS information-sharing efforts : hearing before the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment of the Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, September 13, 2006

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 53 p.)

Soggetti

Information technology - Government policy - United States

Communication in law enforcement - United States

Interagency coordination - United States

Terrorism - United States - Prevention - Information services

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962444303321

Autore

Landsman Mark <1966->

Titolo

Dictatorship and demand : the politics of consumerism in East Germany / / Mark Landsman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

9780674039926

0674039920

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 296 p

Collana

Harvard historical studies ; ; 147

Classificazione

NQ 7010

Disciplina

339.470943109045

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Germany (East)

Socialism - Germany (East)

Germany (East) Economic conditions

Germany (East) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-287) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Production and Consumption: Establishing Priorities -- CHAPTER 2. The Contest Begins: The Currency Reform, the Berlin Blockade, and the Introduction of the HO -- CHAPTER 3. The Planned and the Unplanned: Consumer Supply and Provisioning Crisis -- CHAPTER 4. The Rise, Decline, and Afterlife of the New Course -- CHAPTER 5. Demand Research and the Relations between Trade and Industry -- CHAPTER 6. Crisis Revisited: The Main Economic Task and the Building of the Berlin Wall -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle.