Men of Letters in the Early Republic Cultivating Forums of Citizenship |
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| Author:
| Kaplan, Catherine O'Donnell |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-3164-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. He explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple material: plastic. To East Germans, Rubin says, plastic was a high-technology material, a symbol of socialism's scientific and economic superiority over capitalism.
Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. He explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple material: plastic. To East Germans, Rubin says, plastic was a high-technology material, a symbol of socialism's scientific and economic superiority over capitalism.