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Author Lerner, Paul Frederick, author.

Title The consuming temple : Jews, department stores, and the consumer revolution in Germany, 1880-1940 / Paul Lerner.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Jerusalem's terrain: the department store and its discontents in imperial Germany -- Dream worlds in motion: circulation, cosmopolitanism, and the Jewish question -- Uncanny encounters: the Thief, the Shop Girl, and the Department Store King -- Beyond the consuming temple: Jewish dissimilation and consumer modernity in provincial Germany -- The consuming fire: fantasies of destruction in German politics and culture.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Consumption (Economics) -- Germany -- History.
Consumer behavior -- Germany -- History.
Department stores -- Germany -- History.
Jews -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Jews -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lerner, Paul Frederick. Consuming temple : Jews, department stores, and the consumer revolution in Germany, 1880-1940. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015 9780801452864
ISBN 9780801452864 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781501700125 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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