| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.5

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt, editors. Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century. (Publications of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xii, 477. Cloth $59.95, paper $21.95.

This large volume of essays edited by Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt is a sampler from the latest research of some of the most prominent and imaginative historians of twentieth-century European/American consumer culture. It is an unusually fine collection, originating in a 1995 conference sponsored by the German Historical Institute. Although hardly encyclopedic, the collection offers a balanced and comprehensive view of the entire century. Only the essay by Victoria de Grazia is really comparative, but the reader who takes the trouble to read outside his or her national specialty will find ideas and material that prompt comparative thinking. Most of the essays are broadly political or social and shy away from the methods of cultural studies, consumer economics, or business history. . . .

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