Material Fantasies : Expectations of the Western Consumer World among East Germans.

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In 1989 news broadcasts all over the world were dominated for weeks by images of East Germans crossing the Berlin Wall to West Germany. But what did the East Germans expect to find when they excitedly broke through the Wall? And what did they actually find when they made it over to the other side? T...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Veenis, Milena
Corporate Author: Stichting Historie der Techniek (Content Provider.)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Series:Amsterdam University Press - Technology and European History.
Subjects:
Post-communism > Germany (East)
Consumption (Economics) > Germany (East)
Quality of life > Germany (West)
Quality of life > Germany (East)
Postcommunisme > Allemagne (Est)
Qualité de la vie > Allemagne (Ouest)
Qualité de la vie > Allemagne (Est)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Consumption (Economics)
Post-communism
Quality of life
Germany (East)
Germany (West)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1.Fieldwork
  • Chapter 2.Germany 1945: A Country In Ruins
  • Chapter 3.The GDR: Future Promises
  • Chapter 4.Material Realizations
  • Chapter 5.The East German Dictatorship
  • Chapter 6.Silenced Pasts
  • Chapter 7.Western Promise
  • Chapter 8.Shattered Illusions
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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