Consumer on the Home Front - Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective

Zusatztext the book succeeds in showing how countries on either side of what would become the Iron Curtain deployed similar consumption-oriented strategies for maintaining home front morale! portraying the war as a temporary blip or as a decisive turning point! after which 'normal' life - whatever that meant specifically to them - would necessarily resume. Informationen zum Autor Hartmut Berghoff is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen.Jan Logemann is a Research Fellow in the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen.Felix Römer is a Research Fellow in Modern History at the German Historical Institute London. Klappentext This volume presents ground-breaking international research on the 'home fronts' during the Second World War from a transnational perspective, concentrating on the history of consumption in the major belligerent countries. It offers new insights into the interrelations between war and society and the impact of the war on the post-war era. Zusammenfassung This volume presents ground-breaking international research on the 'home fronts' during the Second World War from a transnational perspective, concentrating on the history of consumption in the major belligerent countries. It offers new insights into the interrelations between war and society and the impact of the war on the post-war era.

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• Authors: Hartmut (University of Goettingen) Logem Berghoff
• Assisted by: Hartmut Berghoff (Editor), Hartmut (University of Goettingen) Berghoff (Editor), Jan Logemann (Editor), Jan (University of Goettingen) Logemann (Editor), Felix (German Historical Institute London) Roemer (Editor), Felix Romer (Editor), Felix Römer (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780198784265
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878426-5
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Studies of the German Historical Institute, London; Studies of the German Historic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries