Consuming Germany and the Cold War [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David F. Crew
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| Titolo: |
Consuming Germany and the Cold War [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David F. Crew
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Berg, 2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 339.4/7/094309045 |
| Soggetto topico: | Consumption (Economics) - Germany (East) |
| Consumption (Economics) - Germany (West) | |
| Consumer behavior - Germany (East) | |
| Consumer behavior - Germany (West) | |
| Altri autori: |
CrewDavid F. <1946->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Consuming Germany and the Cold War |
| ISBN: | 1-282-66219-8 |
| 9786612662195 | |
| 1-84520-621-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825761303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Leisure, consumption, and culture.