03447nam 2200661 a 450 991078401450332120221216024658.01-282-66219-897866126621951-84520-621-5(CKB)1000000000336403(EBL)243470(OCoLC)648759783(SSID)ssj0000358311(PQKBManifestationID)12116848(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358311(PQKBWorkID)10377964(PQKB)10740232(MiAaPQ)EBC243470(Au-PeEL)EBL243470(CaPaEBR)ebr10400652(CaONFJC)MIL266219(OCoLC)893333748(EXLCZ)99100000000033640320030508d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrConsuming Germany and the Cold War[electronic resource] /edited by David F. CrewOxford ;New York Berg20031 online resource (222 p.)Leisure, consumption, and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-85973-771-4 1-85973-766-8 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 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...Leisure, consumption, and culture.Consumption (Economics)Germany (East)CongressesConsumption (Economics)Germany (West)CongressesConsumer behaviorGermany (East)CongressesConsumer behaviorGermany (West)CongressesConsumption (Economics)Consumption (Economics)Consumer behaviorConsumer behavior339.4/7/094309045Crew David F.1946-1502212MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784014503321Consuming Germany and the Cold War3797115UNINA