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Cambridge University Press Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany 1750–1950 (New Studies in European History)

Name: Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany 1750-1950 (New Studies in European History)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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Product Description This innovative book illuminates popular attitudes toward political authority and monarchy in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany. In a fascinating study of how subjects incorporated the material culture of monarchy into their daily lives, Eva Giloi provides insights into German mentalities toward sovereign power. She examines how ordinary people collected and consumed relics and other royal memorabilia, and used these objects to articulate, validate, appropriate, or reject the state's political myths. The book reveals that the social practices that guided the circulation of material culture - under what circumstances it was acceptable to buy and sell the queen's underwear, for instance - expose popular assumptions about the Crown that were often left unspoken. The book sets loyalism in the everyday context of consumerism and commodification, changes in visual culture and technology, and the emergence of mass media and celebrity culture, to uncover a self-possessed, assertive German middle class. Review "This important book presents a new understanding of popular ideas about the Prussian royal family. Giloi’s nuanced findings shed light on attitudes toward consumption, material cultures of the nineteenth century, and everyday life over a period from the 1700s to the early twentieth century." -Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker, The Journal of Modern History Book Description A fascinating study of how ordinary German subjects collected and consumed royal relics and memorabilia. About the Author Eva Giloi is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Rutgers University, Newark.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Model: 35 b/w illus.
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0521761980
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Germany
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 21 July 2011
Listed Since: 27 October 2010

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