03262nam0 22003613i 450 SUN010727920170112124318.487978-08-01-45286-40.00978-15-01-70012-520170112d2015 |0engc50 baengUS|||| |||||The *consuming templeJews, department stores, and the consumer revolution in Germany, 1880-1940Paul LernerIthacaLondon : Cornell University press, 2015XI266 p.ill. ; 25 cmPubblicazione in formato elettronicoDepartment stores in Germany, like their predecessors in France, Britain, and the United States, generated great excitement when they appeared at the end of the nineteenth century. Their sumptuous displays, abundant products, architectural innovations, and prodigious scale inspired widespread fascination and even awe; at the same time, however, many Germans also greeted the rise of the department store with considerable unease. In The Consuming Temple, Paul Lerner explores the complex German reaction to department stores and the widespread belief that they posed hidden dangers both to the individuals, especially women, who frequented them and to the nation as a whole.Drawing on fiction, political propaganda, commercial archives, visual culture, and economic writings, Lerner provides multiple perspectives on the department store, placing it in architectural, gender-historical, commercial, and psychiatric contexts. Noting that Jewish entrepreneurs founded most German department stores, he argues that Jews and “Jewishness” stood at the center of the consumer culture debate from the 1880s, when the stores first appeared, through the latter 1930s, when they were “Aryanized” by the Nazis. German responses to consumer culture and the Jewish question were deeply interwoven, and the “Jewish department store,” framed as an alternative and threatening secular temple, a shrine to commerce and greed, was held responsible for fundamental changes that transformed urban experience and challenged national traditions in Germany's turbulent twentieth century.Consumption (Economics) -GermanyHistoryECSUNC032769Consumer behaviorGermanyHistoryECSUNC032770Department storesGermanyHistoryECSUNC032771JewsGermanySocial conditions20th centuryECSUNC032772Jews--GermanySocial conditions19th centuryECSUNC032773GBLondonSUNL000015IthacaSUNL000377Lerner, Paul M.SUNV057439259227Cornell universitySUNV001466650ITSOL20181109RICASUN0107279UFFICIO DI BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIA03 CONS e-book(972803) 03 BDE539 Accesso al full text attraverso riconoscimento indirizzo IP di Ateneo.UFFICIO DI BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIAIT-CE0106BDE539CONS e-book(972803)paAccesso al full text attraverso riconoscimento indirizzo IP di Ateneo.Consuming temple1412647UNICAMPANIA