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Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany 1750-1950 (Paperback)
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Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany 1750-1950 (Paperback)
Series: New Studies in European History
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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.
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