The people's car : a global history of the Volkswagen Beetle / Bernhard Rieger.
By: Rieger, Bernhard.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 406 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780674050914 (alk. paper); 0674050916 (alk. paper).Other title: Global history of the Volkswagen Beetle.Subject(s): Volkswagen Beetle automobile -- HistoryDDC classification: 629.222/2Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 629.2222 R443 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003484326 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: some shapes are hard to improve on -- Before the "people's car" -- A symbol of the national socialist people's community? -- "We should make no demands" -- Icon of the early federal republic -- An export hit -- "The Beetle is dead -- long live the Beetle" -- "I have a vochito in my heart" -- Of Beetles old and new -- Epilogue: the Volkswagen Beetle as a global icon.
"The People's Car is a transnational cultural history tracing the Beetle from its origins in Nazi Germany to its role in the postwar West German "economic miracle" to its popularity in midcentury Europe and the U.S., second career in Mexico and Latin America, and revival in the late 1990s"--Provided by publisher.
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