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Author Logemann, Jan L., author.

Title Trams or tailfins? : public and private prosperity in postwar West Germany and the United States / Jan L. Logemann.

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Divergent paths to mass consumer modernity -- State : private consumption and the framework of public policy. Politics of mass consumption ; Public and private consumption in affluent societies -- Society : the social significance of consumption. What the people want ; Menace or promise? -- Space : urban and suburban spaces of consumption. Urban and suburban living ; Shaping the postwar consumer city -- Conclusion.
Summary In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed "Americanization" of European consumer societies-in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these foggy notions, Jan L. Logemann takes a comparative look at the development of postwar mass consumption in West Germany and the United States and the emergence of discrete consumer modernities. In Trams or Tailfins?, Logemann explains how the decisions made.
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Subject Consumer behavior -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Consumer behavior.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Consumer behavior -- Germany (West) -- History.
Germany (West)
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term 1945-
Subject Germany (West) -- Economic conditions.
Chronological Term Since 1900
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781283733243 (DLC) 2012004827
ISBN 0226491498
9780226491493
9781283733243 (MyiLibrary)
1283733242 (MyiLibrary)
0226491528
9780226491523