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245	0	0	_aGetting and spending: European and American consumer societies in the twentieth century/ _cedited by Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, Matthias Judt.
260			_aNew York: _bCambridge University Press, _c1998.
300			_axiv, 477 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
505			_aPart I. Politics, Markets, and the State: 1. The consumers' White Label campaign of the National Consumers' League, 1898-1918 2. Democracy and political identity in the consumer society 3. Changing consumption Regimes in Europe, 1930-1970 4. Consumer research as public relations: General Motors in the 1930s 5. The New Deal State and the making of citizen consumers 6. Consumer spending as state Project: yesterday's solutions and today's problems 7. The Emigre as celebrant of American consumer culture: George Katona and Ernest Dichter 8. Dissolution of the 'dictatorship over needs'? consumer behavior and economic reform in East Germany in the 1960s Part II. Everyday Life: 9. World War I and the creation of desire for cars in Germany 10. Gender, generation, and consumption in the United States: working-class families in the interwar period 11. Comparing apples and oranges: housewives and the politics of consumption in interwar Germany 12. 'The convenience is out of this world': the garbage disposer and American consumer culture 13. Consumer culture in the GDR, or how the struggle for antimodernity was lost on the battleground of consumer culture 14. Changes in consumption as social practice in West Germany during the 1950s 15. Reshaping shopping environments: the competition between the city of Boston and its suburbs 16. Toys, socialization, and the commodification of play 17. The 'syndrome of the 1950s' in Switzerland: cheap energy, mass consumption, and the environment 18. Reflecting on Ethnic Imagery in the Landscape of commerce, 1945-1975 Part III. History and Theory: 19. Modern subjectivity and consumer culture 20. Consumption and consumer society: a contribution to the history of ideas 21. Reconsidering abundance: a plea for ambiguity.
650		0	_aConsumption (Economics) _zUnited States _xHistory
650		0	_aConsumption (Economics) _zEurope _xHistory
650		0	_aConsumption (Economics) _zGermany _xHistory
650		0	_aMaterial culture _zUnited States _xHistory
700	1		_aStrasser, Susan,
700	1		_aMcGovern, Charles.
700	1		_aJudt, Matthias,
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