The Making of European Consumption -

The Making of European Consumption

Facing the American Challenge

P. Lundin, T. Kaiserfeld (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-47680-0 (ISBN)
53,45 inkl. MwSt
American ideals and models feature prominently in the master narrative of post-war European consumer societies. This book demonstrates that Europeans did not appropriate a homogenous notion of America, rather post-war European consumption was a process of selective appropriation of American elements.

Adri A. Albert de la Bruhèze, University of Twente, the Netherlands Kjetil Fallan, University of Oslo, Norway Terje Finstad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Stig Kvaal, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Mary Nolan, New York University, USA David Nye, University of Southern Denmark Per Østby, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Emanuela Scarpellini, University of Milan, Italy Karin Zachmann, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Introduction; Per Lundin 1. Negotiating American Modernity in Twentieth-century Europe; Mary Nolan 2. Americanization as Creolized Imagery: The Statue of Liberty During the Cold War; David Nye 3. Forging Europe's Foodways: The American Challenge; Karin Zachmann 4. Tackling Norwegian Cold: The Breakthrough of Home Freezing; Terje Finstad, Stig Kvaal, and Per Østby 5. Americanization and Authenticity: Italian Food Products and Practices in the 1950s and 1960s; Emanuela Scarpellini 6. Love and Hate in Industrial Design: Europe's Design Professionals and America in the 1950s; Kjetil Fallan 7. Confronting the Lure of American Tourism: Modern Accommodation in the Netherlands; Adri A. Albert de la Bruhèze 8. Exploring European Travel: The Swedish Package Tour; Thomas Kaiserfeld 9. Coping with Cars, Families, and Foreigners: Swedish Postwar Tourism; Per Lundin

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
Zusatzinfo XVI, 256 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte americanization • consumption • Europe • postwar • Technology • transnational history • USA
ISBN-10 1-349-47680-3 / 1349476803
ISBN-13 978-1-349-47680-0 / 9781349476800
Zustand Neuware
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