Worlds of Consumption

Published in collaboration with Palgrave Macmillan
Series Editors: Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann 
 

Worlds of Consumption is a peer-reviewed venue for the history of consumption and consumerism in the modern era, especially the twentieth century, with a particular focus on comparative and transnational studies. The series ran from 2012 until 2020 in connection to the GHI’s then research focus on the history of consumption.

 

Publications


Paul Lerner, Uwe Spiekermann, Anne Schenderlein, eds.

Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America

Worlds of Consumption. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022.

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Jan Logemann, Gary Cross & Ingo Köhler, eds

Consumer Engineering, 1920s–1970s: Marketing between Expert Planning and Consumer Responsiveness

Worlds of Consumption. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2019.

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Regina Lee Blaszczyk & Uwe Spiekermann, eds.

Bright Modernity: Color, Commerce, and Consumer Culture

Worlds of Consumption. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2017.

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Emanuela Scarpellini

Food and Foodways in Italy from 1861 to the Present

Worlds of Consumption. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2016

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Malte Zierenberg

Berlin’s Black Market, 1939-1950

Worlds of Consumption. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2015.

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Annelie Ramsbrock

Science of Beauty: Culture and Cosmetics in Modern Germany, 1750–1930

Worlds of Consumption. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2015

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Hartmut Berghoff & Thomas Kühne, eds.

Globalizing Beauty: Consumerism and Body Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century

Worlds of Consumption. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2013

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Hartmut Berghoff & Uwe Spiekermann, eds.

Decoding Modern Consumer Societies

Worlds of Consumption. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2012

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