The people's car : a global history of the Volkswagen Beetle /

"The People's Car is a transnational cultural history tracing the Beetle from its origins in Nazi Germany to its role in the postwar West German "economic miracle" to its popularity in midcentury Europe and the U.S., second career in Mexico and Latin America, and revival in the l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rieger, Bernhard, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Volkswagen Beetle automobile > History.
Coccinelle (Automobile) > Histoire.
TRANSPORTATION > Automotive > General.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
Volkswagen Beetle automobile.
VW Käfer
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: some shapes are hard to improve on
  • Before the "people's car"
  • A symbol of the national socialist people's community?
  • "We should make no demands"
  • Icon of the early federal republic
  • An export hit
  • "The Beetle is dead
  • long live the Beetle"
  • "I have a vochito in my heart"
  • Of Beetles old and new
  • Epilogue: the Volkswagen Beetle as a global icon.

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