Decoding Modern Consumer Societies

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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