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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Berghoff, H
• Spiekermann, U
• Uwe Spiekermann
• Hartmut Berghoff
• Berghoff, Hartmut
• Spiekermann, Uwe

Titel

Decoding Modern Consumer Societies

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 Modern societies are consumer societies, but rigorous research into this dimension has only begun fairly recently. The knowledge that historians and social scientists have produced is impressive, but also bewilderingly diverse and sometimes conflicting. This comprehensive volume seeks to take stock of their work and discuss future research agendas. Drawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history, anthropology, and even environmental history can help us decode modern consumer societies. 08 02 'This volume will serve as a useful companion to those interested in the history of consumers and consumption and the historiography of these themes.'—Pamela Swett, associate professor and chair, Department of History, McMaster University 02 02 Drawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history, anthropology, and even environmental history can help us decode modern consumer societies. 04 02 Taking Stock and Forging Ahead: The Past and Future of Consumption History; H.Berghoff  & U.Spiekermann   PART I: CONSUMPTION HISTORY TODAY Consumption History in Europe: an Overview of Recent Trends; H.G.Haupt Research on the History of Consumption in the USA: An Overview; G.Cross  The Hidden Consumer: Consumption in the Economic History of Japan; P.Francks  Consumption, Identities, and Agency in Africa: An Overview; H.P.Hahn  PART II: CONSUMPTION AND HISTORICAL SUB-DISCIPLINES The Business of Consumer Culture History: Systems, Interactions, and Modernization; P.W.Laird  Affluence and Sustainability: Environmental History and the History of Consumption; F.Uekoetter Consumption Politics and Politicized Consumption: Monarchy, Republic, and Dictatorship in Germany, 1900–1939; H.Berghoff Consumption and Space: Inner-City Pedestrian Malls and the Consequences of Changing Consumer Geographies; J.Logemann   Continental Europeans Respond to American Consumer Culture: Jürgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, and Umberto Eco; D.Horowitz  PART III: CASE STUDIES 'God's Own Consumers': Billy Graham, Mass Evangelism, and Consumption in the United States during the 1950s; U.A.Balbier   A Historical Herbal: Household Medicine and Herbal Commerce in a Developing Consumer Society; S.Strasser   Science, Fruits, and Vegetables: A Case Study on the Interaction of Knowledge and Consumption in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany; U.Spiekermann   An Ambivalent Embrace: Businessmen, Mass Consumption, and Visions of America in the Third Reich; S.J.Wiesen 13 02 Hartmut Berghoff is the director of the German Historical Institute. Uwe Spiekermann is deputy director of the German Historical Institute. 19 02 1) BROAD SURVEY: The study of consumption has exploded recently, and this volume seeks to reconcile a variety of specialized approaches within a common scholarly discourse. 2) GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE: The examples studied herein range from the US to Argentina to Africa to Japan. 3) TOP SCHOLARS: Beyond Berghoff and Spiekermann, the volume includes contributions from some of the leading figures in the field, including Pamela Laird, Gary Cross, and Daniel Horowitz.