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37. Urry, Sociology beyond Societies, pp. 66–76.
38. Kate Lacey, Feminine Frequencies: Gender, German Radio, and the Public Sphere,
1923–1945 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1996); Inge Marssolek, “Radio
in Deutschland 1923–1950: Zur Sozialgeschichte eines Mediums,” Geschichte und
Gesellschaft 27, 2 (2001).
39. See Alf Lüdtke, “What Happened to the ‘Fiery Red Glow’? Workers’ Experiences
and German Fascism,” in Lüdtke (ed.), The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing
Historical Experiences and Ways of Life, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995),
esp. pp. 234–7.
40. There is virtually no developed scholarship on leisure travel in Communist states,
for example. See József Böröcz, Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism
(Oxford: Elsevier Science, 1992).
41. Alon Confino and Rudy Koshar, “Regimes of Consumer Culture: New Narratives
in Twentieth-Century German History,” German History 19, 2 (2001), pp. 135–61.
42. Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt, “Introduction,” in Strasser
et al. (eds) Getting and Spending, pp. 1–7.
43. See Ronald Kline and Trevor Pinch, “Users as Agents of Technological Change: The
Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States,” Technology and Culture
37, 4 (1996), pp. 763–95; Eric Schatzberg, Wings of Wood, Wings of Metal: Culture and
Technical Choice in American Airplane Materials, 1914–1945 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1999).
44. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago and London: University of Chicago
Press, 1958), pp. 136–9.
45. Leora Auslander, Taste and Power (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
California Press, 1996).
46. Dick Hebdige, Hiding in the Light (London and New York: Routledge, 1988); Arjun
Appadurai, (ed.), The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
47. The point is made by Daniel Roche, A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of
Consumption in France, 1600–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
48. Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, ed. by Thomas Y. Levin
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995).
49. Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (London and
New York: Verso, 1974), p. 40.
50. For two recent studies dealing with the “social life” of cars, see Sean O’Connell,
The Car in British Society: Class, Gender, and Motoring 1896–1939 (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1998); Daniel Miller (ed.), Car Cultures: Materializing
Culture (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2001). On a related topic, see H.F. Moorhouse,
Driving Ambitions: An Analysis of the American Hot Rod Enthusiasm (Manchester and New
York: Manchester University Press, 1991).
51. Viktor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, vol. 1: 1933–1941
(New York: Random House, 1998).
52. Eric Hobsbawm, An Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914–1991 (New
York: Pantheon, 1994).
53. Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies.
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