Democratic Consumption? The Cultural History of Mail Order in the US and Germany
25.05.2011 (19:00)
DAI GOES Levi Strauss-Lecture in Erlangen
Prof. Dr. Anne Koenen, Leipzig
Starting in the early 20th century, mail order was the most important media of homogenization: it helped to integrate the underdeveloped rural regions on the frontier into the larger US culture; catalogues were used by immigrants to learn to read and write and to achieve cultural literacy; and it enabled some African Americans to be customers without having to suffer repression. Dr. Koenen shows how mail order „standardized“ various groups into „Americans“ and how consumption contributed to the creation of major a national identity.
Mittwoch, 25.5., 19.00 Uhr
Aula der Universität, Schloßplatz 4, Erlangen
Eintritt frei
engl. Sprache
Prof. Dr. Anne Koenen, Leipzig
Starting in the early 20th century, mail order was the most important media of homogenization: it helped to integrate the underdeveloped rural regions on the frontier into the larger US culture; catalogues were used by immigrants to learn to read and write and to achieve cultural literacy; and it enabled some African Americans to be customers without having to suffer repression. Dr. Koenen shows how mail order „standardized“ various groups into „Americans“ and how consumption contributed to the creation of major a national identity.
Mittwoch, 25.5., 19.00 Uhr
Aula der Universität, Schloßplatz 4, Erlangen
Eintritt frei
engl. Sprache