LEADER 03262nam0 22003613i 450 001 SUN0107279 005 20170112124318.487 010 $a978-08-01-45286-4$d0.00 010 $a978-15-01-70012-5 100 $a20170112d2015 |0engc50 ba 101 $aeng 102 $aUS 105 $a|||| ||||| 200 1 $aThe *consuming temple$eJews, department stores, and the consumer revolution in Germany, 1880-1940$fPaul Lerner 205 $aIthaca$gLondon : Cornell University press, 2015 210 $aXI$d266 p.$cill. ; 25 cm 215 $aPubblicazione in formato elettronico 330 $aDepartment 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. 606 $aConsumption (Economics) -Germany$xHistory$2EC$3SUNC032769 606 $aConsumer behavior$xGermany$xHistory$2EC$3SUNC032770 606 $aDepartment stores$xGermany$xHistory$2EC$3SUNC032771 606 $aJews$xGermany$xSocial conditions$x20th century$2EC$3SUNC032772 606 $aJews--Germany$xSocial conditions$x19th century$2EC$3SUNC032773 620 $aGB$dLondon$3SUNL000015 620 $dIthaca$3SUNL000377 700 1$aLerner$b, Paul M.$3SUNV057439$0259227 712 $aCornell university$3SUNV001466$4650 801 $aIT$bSOL$c20181109$gRICA 912 $aSUN0107279 950 $aUFFICIO DI BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIA$d03 CONS e-book(972803) $e03 BDE539 Accesso al full text attraverso riconoscimento indirizzo IP di Ateneo. 995 $aUFFICIO DI BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIA$bIT-CE0106$gBDE$h539$kCONS e-book(972803)$op$qa$uAccesso al full text attraverso riconoscimento indirizzo IP di Ateneo. 996 $aConsuming temple$91412647 997 $aUNICAMPANIA