| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Leisure, consumption, and culture
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Leisure, consumption, and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 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 th e Cold War assesses why East Germany increasingly fell behind in this competition and how the failur. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- Germany (East) -- Congresses.
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Consumption (Economics) |
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Germany (East) |
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Consumption (Economics) -- Germany (West) -- Congresses.
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Germany (West) |
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Consumer behavior -- Germany (East) -- Congresses.
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Consumer behavior. |
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Consumer behavior -- Germany (West) -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Crew, David F., 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Consuming Germany and the Cold War. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003 9781859737668 (DLC) 2003010058 (OCoLC)52251298 |
| ISBN |
9781845206215 (electronic book) |
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1845206215 (electronic book) |
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1859737668 |
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1859737714 (paperback) |
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9781859737712 (paperback) |
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9781859737668 |
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