Getting and spending: European and American consumer societies in the twentieth century/ (Record no. 164567)
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| fixed length control field | 01816cam a2200397 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780521626941 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0521626943 (pb) |
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| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 339.4709409049 |
| Item number | STR/G |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Getting and spending: European and American consumer societies in the twentieth century/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, Matthias Judt. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1998. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiv, 477 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Part I. Politics, Markets, and the State: <br/><br/>1. The consumers' White Label campaign of the National Consumers' League, 1898-1918<br/>2. Democracy and political identity in the consumer society<br/>3. Changing consumption Regimes in Europe, 1930-1970<br/>4. Consumer research as public relations: General Motors in the 1930s<br/>5. The New Deal State and the making of citizen consumers<br/>6. Consumer spending as state Project: yesterday's solutions and today's problems<br/>7. The Emigre<br/>as celebrant of American consumer culture: George Katona and Ernest Dichter<br/>8. Dissolution of the 'dictatorship over needs'? consumer behavior and economic reform in East Germany in the 1960s<br/><br/>Part II. Everyday Life: <br/><br/>9. World War I and the creation of desire for cars in Germany<br/>10. Gender, generation, and consumption in the United States: working-class families in the interwar period<br/>11. Comparing apples and oranges: housewives and the politics of consumption in interwar Germany<br/>12. 'The convenience is out of this world': the garbage disposer and American consumer culture<br/>13. Consumer culture in the GDR, or how the struggle for antimodernity was lost on the battleground of consumer culture<br/>14. Changes in consumption as social practice in West Germany during the 1950s<br/>15. Reshaping shopping environments: the competition between the city of Boston and its suburbs<br/>16. Toys, socialization, and the commodification of play<br/>17. The 'syndrome of the 1950s' in Switzerland: cheap energy, mass consumption, and the environment<br/>18. Reflecting on Ethnic Imagery in the Landscape of commerce, 1945-1975<br/><br/>Part III. History and Theory: <br/><br/>19. Modern subjectivity and consumer culture<br/>20. Consumption and consumer society: a contribution to the history of ideas<br/>21. Reconsidering abundance: a plea for ambiguity. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Consumption (Economics) |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| General subdivision | History |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Consumption (Economics) |
| Geographic subdivision | Europe |
| General subdivision | History |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Consumption (Economics) |
| Geographic subdivision | Germany |
| General subdivision | History |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Material culture |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| General subdivision | History |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Strasser, Susan, |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McGovern, Charles. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Judt, Matthias, |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 29/08/2016 | 339.4709409049 STR/G | P19479 | 11/07/2018 | 11/07/2018 | General Books |