Contents
List of figures
Contributors
Taking Stock and Forging Ahead: The Past and Future of Consumption History / H.Berghoff & U.Spiekermann
PART I. CONSUMPTION HISTORY TODAY
1. Consumption History in Europe: an Overview of Recent Trends / H.G.Haupt
2. Research on the History of Consumption in the USA: An Overview / G.Cross
3. The Hidden Consumer: Consumption in the Economic History of Japan / P.Francks
4. Consumption, Identities, and Agency in Africa: An Overview / H.P.Hahn
PART II. CONSUMPTION AND HISTORICAL SUB-DISCIPLINES
5. The Business of Consumer Culture History: Systems, Interactions, and Modernization / P.W.Laird
6. Affluence and Sustainability: Environmental History and the History of Consumption / F.Uekoetter
7. Consumption Politics and Politicized Consumption: Monarchy, Republic, and Dictatorship in Germany, 1900?1939 / H.Berghoff
8. Consumption and Space: Inner-City Pedestrian Malls and the Consequences of Changing Consumer Geographies / J.Logemann
9. Continental Europeans Respond to American Consumer Culture: J?rgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, and Umberto Eco / D.Horowitz
PART III. CASE STUDIES
10. 'God's Own Consumers': Billy Graham, Mass Evangelism, and Consumption in the United States during the 1950s / U.A.Balbier
11. A Historical Herbal: Household Medicine and Herbal Commerce in a Developing Consumer Society / S.Strasser
12. Science, Fruits, and Vegetables: A Case Study on the Interaction of Knowledge and Consumption in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany / U.Spiekermann
13. An Ambivalent Embrace: Businessmen, Mass Consumption, and Visions of America in the Third Reich / S.J.Wiesen
Index