Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany 17501950 by Eva Giloi

Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany 17501950 by Eva Giloi

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.

"This important book presents a new understanding of popular ideas about the Prussian royal familyGiloi’s nuanced findings shed light on attitudes toward consumption, material cultures of the nineteenth century, and everyday life over a period from the 1700s to the early twentieth century." -Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker, The Journal of Modern History

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

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ISBN 13	9780521761987
ISBN 10	0521761980
Title	Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany 17501950
Author	Eva Giloi
Series	New Studies In European History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2011-07-21
Number of pages	452
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