Trams or Tailfins?

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A01=Jan L. Logemann
america
americanization
aspiration
Author_Jan L. Logemann
business
capitalism
Category1=Non-Fiction
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Category=KCZ
Category=NHD
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city centers
commerce
consumer policy
consumerism
COP=United States
credit
debt
development
economic superpower
economics
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finance
financing
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government
history
HMM=229
IMPN=University of Chicago Press
industry
infrastructure
ISBN13=9780226491493
mass consumption
nonfiction
PA=Available
PD=20130104
pedestrian
politics
Price=53.55
prosperity
PS=Active
PUB=The University of Chicago Press
public transit
shopping
space
streets
Subject=Economics
Subject=History
suburbs
wealth
west germany
WMM=152

Product details

  • ISBN 9780226491493
  • Weight: 567g
  • Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Nov 2012
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of the supposed "Americanization" of European consumer societies - in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these foggy notions, Jan L. Logemann takes a comparative look at the development of postwar mass consumption in West Germany and the United States and the emergence of discrete consumer modernities. In "Trams or Tailfins?", Logemann explains how the decisions made at this crucial time helped to define both of these economic superpowers in the second half of the twentieth century. While Americans splurged on private cars and bought goods on credit in suburban shopping malls, Germans rebuilt public transit and developed pedestrian shopping streets in their city centers - choices that continue to shape the quality and character of life decades later. Outlining the abundant differences in the structures of consumer society, consumer habits, and the role of public consumption in these countries, Logemann reveals the many subtle ways that the spheres of government, society, and physical space define how we live.
Jan L. Logemann is the editor of The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective. A research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, he is also the director of their Transatlantic Perspectives project.