Decoding Modern Consumer Societies
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Decoding Modern Consumer Societies: (Worlds of Consumption)

Decoding Modern Consumer Societies: (Worlds of Consumption)


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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.

Table of Contents:
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: Jurgen 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

About the Author :
Hartmut Berghoffis the director of the German Historical Institute. Uwe Spiekermannis deputy director of the German Historical Institute.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781137013002
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Series Title: Worlds of Consumption
  • ISBN-10: 1137013001
  • Publisher Date: 03 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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