TY - BOOK AU - Veenis,Milena TI - Material Fantasies: Expectations of the Western Consumer World among East Germans T2 - Technology and European History Series SN - 9789048515653 AV - HC290 PY - 2012/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Post-communism--Germany (East) KW - Consumption (Economics)--Germany (East) KW - Quality of life--Germany (West) KW - Quality of life--Germany (East) KW - Germany (East)--Relations--Germany (West) KW - Germany (West)--Relations--Germany (East) KW - Germany--History--Unification, 1990 KW - Germany--Social conditions--1990 KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Material Fantasies -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Fieldwork -- Chapter 2 Germany 1945: A Country in Ruins -- Chapter 3 The GDR: Future Promises -- Chapter 4 Material Realizations -- Chapter 5 The East German Dictatorship -- Chapter 6 Silenced Pasts -- Chapter 7 Western Promise -- Chapter 8 Shattered Illusions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1773729 ER -