03226nam0 22003733i 450 VAN010727920221130052201.440978-08-01-45286-4978-15-01-70012-520170112d2015 |0itac50 baengUS|||| |||||ˆThe ‰consuming templeJews, department stores, and the consumer revolution in Germany, 1880-1940Paul LernerIthacaLondonCornell University press2015XI, 266 p.ill.25 cmDepartment 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) -GermanyHistoryVANC032769ECConsumer behaviorGermanyHistoryVANC032770ECDepartment storesGermanyHistoryVANC032771ECJewsGermanySocial conditions20th centuryVANC032772ECJews--GermanySocial conditions19th centuryVANC032773ECGBLondonVANL000015IthacaVANL000377LernerPaul M.VANV057439259227Cornell universityVANV108989650ITSOL20221202RICAhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=972803E-book – Accesso al full-text attraverso riconoscimento IP di Ateneo, proxy e/o ShibbolethBIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIAIT-CE0106VAN03NVAN0107279BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIA03CONS e-book(972803) 03BDE539 20170112 BuonoConsuming temple1412647UNISOB