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How did the beer drinking German become a fixture in the global imagination? How did a provincial production standard - the
Reinheitsgebot, or Beer Purity Law - become a pillar of national consumer sentiments?
A Nation Fermented explores how southern German convictions shaped the culture of the nation in the twentieth century.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Timeline
- Map
- Introduction
- 1: Integration and Its Discontents: Lager, Tax, and Temperance, c. 1900 to the 1930s
- 2: The People's Drink in the Racial State: Debating the Interests of the Volk
- 3: Liquid Bread: The New Politics of Bavaria from the Postwar Occupation to the Federal Republic
- 4: Brewing up a New Old Germany: Production, Consumption, and Social Order in the Miracle Years
- 5: Making a National Icon: A Political Economy of the Reinheitsgebot, 1953-1975
- 6: The Munich Effect: Löwenbräu, Bavarian Beer, and the Global Imaginary
- 7: Gone Flat?: Reconfigurations from the Recession to the Wende
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
About the author
Robert Shea Terrell is an assistant professor of history at Syracuse University, where he specializes in Modern Germany and Europe, with a research focus on commodity and food history. His research has been funded by the J. William Fulbright Commission, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., among other institutions. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California San Diego.
Summary
How did the beer drinking German become a fixture in the global imagination? How did a provincial production standard – the Reinheitsgebot, or Beer Purity Law – become a pillar of national consumer sentiments? A Nation Fermented explores how southern German convictions shaped the culture of the nation in the twentieth century.
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