{"product_id":"the-consuming-temple-jews-department-stores-and-the-consumer-revolution-in-germany-1880-1940-hardback-9780801452864","title":"The Consuming Temple; Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940 (Hardback) 9780801452864","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Consuming Temple\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eJews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul Lerner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801452864\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 May 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 46 halftones - 46 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book does more than just providing another economic or business history of the rise of the centralized, rationalized and scientifically managed department store in Germany.... In comparison with the existing literature, which has often taken the 'Jewishness' of German department store owners for granted, Lerner excels at questioning and reflecting the multiple perspectives on the 'figure of the Jew' while analyzing their implications for the development of the German department store in general.\u003c\/p\u003e - Gerulf Hirt (Oxford Journals: German History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDepartment stores in Germany, like their predecessors in France, Britain, and the United States, generated great excitement when they appeared at the end of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/b\u003e Their sumptuous displays, abundant products, architectural innovations, and prodigious scale inspired widespread fascination and even awe; at the same time, however, many Germans also greeted the rise of the department store with considerable unease. In\u003ci\u003e The Consuming Temple\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Lerner explores the complex German reaction to department stores and the widespread belief that they posed hidden dangers both to the individuals, especially women, who frequented them and to the nation as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on fiction, political propaganda, commercial archives, visual culture, and economic writings, Lerner provides multiple perspectives on the department store, placing it in architectural, gender-historical, commercial, and psychiatric contexts. Noting that Jewish entrepreneurs founded most German department stores, he argues that Jews and \"Jewishness\" stood at the center of the consumer culture debate from the 1880s, when the stores first appeared, through the latter 1930s, when they were \"Aryanized\" by the Nazis. German responses to consumer culture and the Jewish question were deeply interwoven, and the \"Jewish department store,\" framed as an alternative and threatening secular temple, a shrine to commerce and greed, was held responsible for fundamental changes that transformed urban experience and challenged national traditions in Germany's turbulent twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction1. Jerusalem's Terrain: The Department Store and Its Discontents in Imperial Germany2. Dreamworlds in Motion: Circulation, Cosmopolitanism, and the Jewish Question3. Uncanny Encounters: The Thief, the Shopgirl, and the Department Store King4. Beyond the Consuming Temple: Jewish Dissimilation and Consumer Modernity in Provincial Germany5. The Consuming Fire: Fantasies of Destruction in German Politics and CultureConclusion\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52541786063128,"sku":"9780801452864","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-consuming-temple-jews-department-stores-and-the-consumer-revolution-in-germany-1880-1940-hardback-9780801452864","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}