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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.

Über den Autor

Eva Giloi is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Rutgers University, Newark.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: the material culture of monarchy; 2. Collecting royal relics, 1750s-1850s: means, motives, and meaning; 3. Relics under Friedrich Wilhelm III, 1797-1830; 4. Entr'acte: culture and power - a long-term outlook; 5. Frederick the Great in the Vormärz: relics and myth, 1830s-1840s; 6. The Neues museum, 1850s-1870s: relics in retreat; 7. Wilhelm I: relics and myth; 8. Consumerism and the gift-giving economy; 9. The Hohenzollern museum; 10. Image as object: the carte-de-visite photograph as souvenir; 11. Wilhelm II and the Hohenzollern legacy: the Kaiser takes charge; 12. The fragmentation of a myth after 1888; 13. Conclusion and epilogue: the success of a dynasty?

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781107675407
ISBN-10:	1107675405
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Giloi, Eva
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Eva Giloi
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.08.2013
Gewicht:	0,65 kg