Consuming Germany in the Cold War

Consuming Germany in the Cold War / edited by David F. Crew.

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 qui ckly became important battlefields upon which the...

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Other Authors: Crew, David F., 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003.
Series:Leisure, consumption, and culture.
Subjects:
Consumption (Economics) > Germany (East) > Congresses.
Consumption (Economics) > Germany (West) > Congresses.
Consumer behavior > Germany (East) > Congresses.
Consumer behavior > Germany (West) > Congresses.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
Consumer behavior
Consumption (Economics)
Consumentengedrag.
Consumentisme.
Koude Oorlog.
Germany (East)
Germany (West)
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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