Monarchy, myth, and material culture in Germany 1750-1950 /

Monarchy, myth, and material culture in Germany 1750-1950 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Giloi, Eva, 1968-
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description:	x, 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New studies in European history New studies in European history.
Subject:	Material culture -- Germany -- History. Monarchy -- Germany -- History. Monarchy -- Germany -- Public opinion. Monarchy -- Germany -- Prussia -- Public opinion. Kings and rulers -- Collectibles. Material culture. Monarchy. Monarchy -- Public opinion. Germany -- Kings and rulers -- Collectibles. Prussia (Germany) -- Kings and rulers -- Collectibles. Germany. Germany -- Prussia. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8463871

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ISBN:	9780521761987 (hbk.) 0521761980 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-411) and index.
Summary:	Explores popular attitudes toward political authority and monarchy in Prussia and Germany, studying how subjects incorporated the material culture of monarchy into their daily lives.

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Avknowledgments
1. Introduction: the material culture of monarchy
2. Collecting royal relics 1750s-1850s: means, motives, and meaning
3. Relics and 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. Consumer capitalism 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
Bibliography
Index