Berlin's Black Market

1939-1950
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-01774-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 5797 g

Reihe: Worlds of Consumption

This book puts the illegal economy of the German capital during and after World War II into context and provides a new interpretation of Germany's postwar history. The black market, it argues, served as a reference point for the beginnings of the two new German states.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zierenberg, Malte

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Prologues
2. The Wartime Networks: The Martha Rebbien Case
3. Destruction, Disorientation and New Patterns of Order: Changes in the Black Market Landscape during the Transition from War to Postwar
4. Black Markets from the End of the War to the Currency Reform
5. Stories of a New Beginning: The Economy of the Streets between the Currency Reform and the 'Economic Miracle'
Conclusion: Black Market Trading as a Radical Experience of a Free Market

Über Autor(innen)

Malte Zierenberg is an Assistant Professor of twentieth-century European History at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. He specializes in Urban, Economic, and Transnational Media History.