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Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany

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Editors:
  1. Pamela E. Swett

    1. McMaster University, Canada

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  2. Corey Ross

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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  3. Fabrice d’Almeida

    1. Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), France

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Although we associate the Third Reich above all with suffering, pain and fear, pleasure played a central role in its social and cultural dynamics. This book explores the relationship between the rationing of pleasures as a means of political stabilization and the pressure on the Nazi regime to cater to popular cultural expectations.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany: An Introduction

    1. Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany: An Introduction

      • Pamela E. Swett, Corey Ross, Fabrice d’Almeida
      Pages 1-15

  3. Consumption and the Privileges of Pleasure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Driving, Shopping and Smoking: The Society for Consumer Research and the Politics of Pleasure in Nazi Germany

      • S. Jonathan Wiesen
      Pages 19-38

    3. Selling Sexual Pleasure in 1930s Germany

      • Pamela E. Swett
      Pages 39-66

    4. Luxury and Distinction under National Socialism

      • Fabrice d’Almeida
      Pages 67-83

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 278-307
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"Using "pleasure" as an analytical category, this book makes a significant contribution to the history of the Third Reich by giving us a new angle by which to approach it...Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany is a clever, thought-provoking book that has much to teach anyone interested in the Third Reich or the histories of emotion and culture in general." - Mark B. Cole, H-German

Editors and Affiliations

  • McMaster University, Canada

    Pamela E. Swett

  • University of Birmingham, UK

    Corey Ross

  • Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), France

    Fabrice d’Almeida

About the editors

FABRICE D'ALMEIDA Professor of Contemporary History, University Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), France KARL CHRISTIAN FÜHRER Professor of History, University of Hamburg, Germany ELIZABETH HARVEY Professor of History, the University of Nottingham, UK THOMAS KÜHNE Strassler Professor of Holocaust History, Clark University, UK PATRICK MERZIGER Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, the Free University of Berlin, Germany DANIEL MÜHLENFELD Doctoral Student, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany DAVID PAN Associate Professor of German, the University of California, Irvine, USA MARK ROSEMAN Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History, Indiana University, USA COREY ROSS Professor of Modern History, University of Birmingham, UK PAMELA E. SWETT Associate Professor of History, McMaster University, Canada S. JONATHAN WIESEN Associate Professor of Modern European History, Southern Illinois University, USA

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