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Consuming The Cold War

  • Barthes, Roland, Mythologies (London, 1957).
  • Baudrillard, Jean, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (London, 1970).
  • Buchli, Victor, An Archaeology of Socialism (Oxford, 1999).
  • Crew, David, Consuming Germany in the Cold War (Oxford, 2003).
  • Daunton, Martin and Matthew Hilton (eds.), The Politics of Consumption: Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America (Oxford: Berg, 2001).
  • Hixson, Walter L., Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture and the Cold War, 1945-1961 (Basingstoke, 1997).
  • Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (London, 1997).
  • Kuisel, Richard F., Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization (Berkeley: 1993).
  • Lacorne, Denis et al. (eds.), The Rise and Fall of Anti-Americanism: A Century of French Perception (Basingstoke, 1990).
  • May, Elaine Tyler, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (New York, 1988).
  • Packard, Vance, The Hidden Persuaders (New York, 1957).
  • Pence, Katherine, ‘Labours of Consumption: Gendered Consumers in Post-War East and West German Reconstruction’, in: Lynn Abrams/Elizabeth Harvey (eds.), Gender Relations in German History (London, 1996), 211-38.
  • Pendergrast, Mark, For God, Country and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the World’s Most Popular Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It (London: Phoenix, 1993).
  • Reid, Susan E., and Crowley, David (eds.), Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe (Oxford, 2000).
  • Ross, Kristin, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (Cambridge, MA, 1995).
  • Schissler, Hanna (ed.), The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968 (Princeton: PUP, 2001).
  • Wagnleitner, Reinhold, Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria after the Second World War (Chapel Hill, 1994).
  • Zatlin, Jonathan, ‘The Vehicle of Desire: The Trabant, the Wartburg, and the End of the GDR’, German History, 15 (1997), 358-80.
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