Trams or tailfins?
Subtitle: public and private prosperity in postwar West Germany and the United States
By: Jan L. Logemann
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226491493; 9780226491523
Subjects: Economic conditions; Consumption (Economics); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Divergent paths to mass consumer modernity; title: State : private consumption and the framework of public policy. Politics of mass consumption ; Public and private consumption in affluent societies; title: Society : the social significance of consumption. What the people want ; Menace or promise?; title: Space : urban and suburban spaces of consumption. Urban and suburban living ; Shaping the postwar consumer city; title: Conclusion.