Jan Logemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1195622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Logemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Logemann |
| SIGNATURE | LOGEMANN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deutsches Historisches Institut Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4014-0169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Robert Shea Terrell. A Nation Fermented
Chandlerian growth in a ‘taboo market’? The American deathcare industry since the early 20th century
Designing One Nation
Typically, we associate a stark discrepancy in the quality and availability of consumer goods between East and West Germany with the country’s Cold War division. Media images from 1989/90 document the desire of East Germans to share in Western consumerism, rivalling political dissent as a source of unrest against the communist regime. A few years later, by contrast, nostalgic longings for Ostprodukte, goods and brands produced in the East, were a…
Das Geschäft mit den Toten
Funeral homes provide an essential service in modern societies, yet their role as commercial actors engaging with the deceased has also been contested. This article surveys the development of funeral markets in Germany since the late nineteenth century, asking about the changing interplay of market logics and socio-cultural norms. It reveals the early development of a vibrant commercial market for funerals already prior to World War I. Looking at…
Auf Zeit“ gekauft
Consumer credit has been central to the history of small loans since the late 19 th century. Debates over credit buying (or “buying on time”) reveal fundamental assumptions about imagined futures and pasts in modern economies. Credit buying often built on expectations of future growth and improved living standards. Still, debates over credit highlight social anxieties also invoked an imagined past of supposedly more frugal household financing. Ta…
Mixed Views“
Konstruktion und Kanle deutsch-amerikanischer Wahrnehmungen seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg I. Wer sind die anderen
Ökonomisierung. Debatten und Praktiken in der Zeitgeschichte
The decades since the 1970s are frequently portrayed as an age of neoliberalism, characterized by an expansion of economic thinking and of market mechanisms to encompass seemingly all aspects of life. Such processes are evoked by the term Ökonomisierung (economization), which lacks a real English counterpart and remains diffuse in German debates as well, at times used interchangeably with related concepts such as commercialization, marketization …
Consumer Modernity as Cultural Translation
European émigrés of the 1930s and 1940s played a prominent role in multidirectional transatlantic knowledge transfers. Using the example of consumer researchers and commercial designers, this article shows that the practices of American mass consumption at mid-century were shaped by transnational flows of knowledge at a fundamental level. The subsequent translation of marketing practices to post-war Western Europe, so-called Americanization, was …
Consumer Lending in France and America
Verkannte Propheten? Zur 'Expertenkultur' (west-)deutscher Werbekommunikatoren bis zur Rezession 1966/67
This is less a book about the history of advertising in modern Germany, a subject which has recently garnered some attention from cultural historians and those working on the history of consumerism, but rather a collective biography of the admen who pioneered and built the country’s advertising industry. Basing his work on an impressive sample of nearly four hundred independent advertisers and advertising executives in corporations, Hirt tells th…
Europe – Migration – Identity
This introductory essay places the articles of the special issue within the context of current scholarship on Europeanness and European identities as well as on transatlantic and inner-European migration. It probes the relationship between various migration experiences and identifications with Europe and the possible emergence of a European self-understanding among migrants. This exploratory collection of papers puts the two bodies of scholarship…
Christmas in Germany
Joe Perry, Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History (2010), 416 + 37 illustrations (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, $49.95). Initially this reviewer was sceptical as to whether it
Is it in the interest of the consumer to pay taxes? Transatlantic differences in postwar approaches to public consumption
This article is a comparative analysis of American and West German consumer policy and its underlying definition of the consumer interest during the decades following the Second World War. It traces diverging government responses to a transatlantic debate among economists, policy makers and a wider public over the proper balance between private and public consumption. Whereas postwar America put an emphasis on unrestrained private purchasing powe…
Americanization through Credit? Consumer Credit in Germany, 1860s–1960s
This study of the American impact on German consumer credit reveals that the notion of post–World War II Americanization emerging through credit-induced consumption is more complicated than has been previously acknowledged. The postwar debate in Germany over consumer credit as an American import had antecedents in a longer, previously overlooked, history of consumer credit. Moreover, the concept of Americanization remains misleading from a compar…
The myth of a bygone cash economy
Cet article se propose d’interroger le mythe, né dans l’après-guerre, d’un âge passé de paiement comptant dans le commerce de détail allemand et montre que l’expansion du crédit à la consommation après la Seconde Guerre mondiale pourrait avoir été construite sur des traditions « indigènes » vigoureuses et substantielles d’achat à crédit. L’accent mis sur le paiement comptant n’a pas été seulement un phénomène relativement récent promu par les nou…
Different Paths to Mass Consumption
This article shows how differences in the way Americans and West Germans financed their consumption during the postwar decades underlines differences in social and cultural meanings of consumption. Consumer debt rose rapidly in postwar America. Many Americans came to regard credit as a means of ensuring democratic access to the American dream and to an expanding middle class. The federal government regarded installment credit as a viable way of e…
Landscape and Images
Book Review| July 01 2007 Landscape and Images Landscape and Images. John R. Stilgoe. Jan Logemann Jan Logemann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 437–438. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.3.437 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jan Logemann; Landscape and Images. Agricultural History 1 January 2007; 81 (3): 437–438. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/…
Different Paths to Mass Consumption
This article shows how differences in the way Americans and West Germans financed their consumption during the postwar decades underlines differences in social and cultural meanings of consumption. Consumer debt rose rapidly in postwar America. Many Americans came to regard credit as a means of ensuring democratic access to the American dream and to an expanding middle class. The federal government regarded installment credit as a viable way of e…
Das Geschäft mit den Toten
Funeral homes provide an essential service in modern societies, yet their role as commercial actors engaging with the deceased has also been contested. This article surveys the development of funeral markets in Germany since the late nineteenth century, asking about the changing interplay of market logics and socio-cultural norms. It reveals the early development of a vibrant commercial market for funerals already prior to World War I. Looking at…
Consumer Modernity as Cultural Translation
European émigrés of the 1930s and 1940s played a prominent role in multidirectional transatlantic knowledge transfers. Using the example of consumer researchers and commercial designers, this article shows that the practices of American mass consumption at mid-century were shaped by transnational flows of knowledge at a fundamental level. The subsequent translation of marketing practices to post-war Western Europe, so-called Americanization, was …
Is it in the interest of the consumer to pay taxes? Transatlantic differences in postwar approaches to public consumption
This article is a comparative analysis of American and West German consumer policy and its underlying definition of the consumer interest during the decades following the Second World War. It traces diverging government responses to a transatlantic debate among economists, policy makers and a wider public over the proper balance between private and public consumption. Whereas postwar America put an emphasis on unrestrained private purchasing powe…
Americanization through Credit? Consumer Credit in Germany, 1860s–1960s
This study of the American impact on German consumer credit reveals that the notion of post–World War II Americanization emerging through credit-induced consumption is more complicated than has been previously acknowledged. The postwar debate in Germany over consumer credit as an American import had antecedents in a longer, previously overlooked, history of consumer credit. Moreover, the concept of Americanization remains misleading from a compar…
The myth of a bygone cash economy
Cet article se propose d’interroger le mythe, né dans l’après-guerre, d’un âge passé de paiement comptant dans le commerce de détail allemand et montre que l’expansion du crédit à la consommation après la Seconde Guerre mondiale pourrait avoir été construite sur des traditions « indigènes » vigoureuses et substantielles d’achat à crédit. L’accent mis sur le paiement comptant n’a pas été seulement un phénomène relativement récent promu par les nou…
Landscape and Images
Book Review| July 01 2007 Landscape and Images Landscape and Images. John R. Stilgoe. Jan Logemann Jan Logemann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 437–438. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.3.437 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jan Logemann; Landscape and Images. Agricultural History 1 January 2007; 81 (3): 437–438. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/…
Different Paths to Mass Consumption
This article shows how differences in the way Americans and West Germans financed their consumption during the postwar decades underlines differences in social and cultural meanings of consumption. Consumer debt rose rapidly in postwar America. Many Americans came to regard credit as a means of ensuring democratic access to the American dream and to an expanding middle class. The federal government regarded installment credit as a viable way of e…
The myth of a bygone cash economy
Cet article se propose d’interroger le mythe, né dans l’après-guerre, d’un âge passé de paiement comptant dans le commerce de détail allemand et montre que l’expansion du crédit à la consommation après la Seconde Guerre mondiale pourrait avoir été construite sur des traditions « indigènes » vigoureuses et substantielles d’achat à crédit. L’accent mis sur le paiement comptant n’a pas été seulement un phénomène relativement récent promu par les nou…
Is it in the interest of the consumer to pay taxes? Transatlantic differences in postwar approaches to public consumption
This article is a comparative analysis of American and West German consumer policy and its underlying definition of the consumer interest during the decades following the Second World War. It traces diverging government responses to a transatlantic debate among economists, policy makers and a wider public over the proper balance between private and public consumption. Whereas postwar America put an emphasis on unrestrained private purchasing powe…
Americanization through Credit? Consumer Credit in Germany, 1860s–1960s
This study of the American impact on German consumer credit reveals that the notion of post–World War II Americanization emerging through credit-induced consumption is more complicated than has been previously acknowledged. The postwar debate in Germany over consumer credit as an American import had antecedents in a longer, previously overlooked, history of consumer credit. Moreover, the concept of Americanization remains misleading from a compar…
Europe – Migration – Identity
This introductory essay places the articles of the special issue within the context of current scholarship on Europeanness and European identities as well as on transatlantic and inner-European migration. It probes the relationship between various migration experiences and identifications with Europe and the possible emergence of a European self-understanding among migrants. This exploratory collection of papers puts the two bodies of scholarship…
Christmas in Germany
Joe Perry, Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History (2010), 416 + 37 illustrations (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, $49.95). Initially this reviewer was sceptical as to whether it
Verkannte Propheten? Zur 'Expertenkultur' (west-)deutscher Werbekommunikatoren bis zur Rezession 1966/67
This is less a book about the history of advertising in modern Germany, a subject which has recently garnered some attention from cultural historians and those working on the history of consumerism, but rather a collective biography of the admen who pioneered and built the country’s advertising industry. Basing his work on an impressive sample of nearly four hundred independent advertisers and advertising executives in corporations, Hirt tells th…
Consumer Lending in France and America
Consumer Modernity as Cultural Translation
European émigrés of the 1930s and 1940s played a prominent role in multidirectional transatlantic knowledge transfers. Using the example of consumer researchers and commercial designers, this article shows that the practices of American mass consumption at mid-century were shaped by transnational flows of knowledge at a fundamental level. The subsequent translation of marketing practices to post-war Western Europe, so-called Americanization, was …
Mixed Views“
Konstruktion und Kanle deutsch-amerikanischer Wahrnehmungen seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg I. Wer sind die anderen
Ökonomisierung. Debatten und Praktiken in der Zeitgeschichte
The decades since the 1970s are frequently portrayed as an age of neoliberalism, characterized by an expansion of economic thinking and of market mechanisms to encompass seemingly all aspects of life. Such processes are evoked by the term Ökonomisierung (economization), which lacks a real English counterpart and remains diffuse in German debates as well, at times used interchangeably with related concepts such as commercialization, marketization …
Auf Zeit“ gekauft
Consumer credit has been central to the history of small loans since the late 19 th century. Debates over credit buying (or “buying on time”) reveal fundamental assumptions about imagined futures and pasts in modern economies. Credit buying often built on expectations of future growth and improved living standards. Still, debates over credit highlight social anxieties also invoked an imagined past of supposedly more frugal household financing. Ta…
Designing One Nation
Typically, we associate a stark discrepancy in the quality and availability of consumer goods between East and West Germany with the country’s Cold War division. Media images from 1989/90 document the desire of East Germans to share in Western consumerism, rivalling political dissent as a source of unrest against the communist regime. A few years later, by contrast, nostalgic longings for Ostprodukte, goods and brands produced in the East, were a…
Das Geschäft mit den Toten
Funeral homes provide an essential service in modern societies, yet their role as commercial actors engaging with the deceased has also been contested. This article surveys the development of funeral markets in Germany since the late nineteenth century, asking about the changing interplay of market logics and socio-cultural norms. It reveals the early development of a vibrant commercial market for funerals already prior to World War I. Looking at…
Robert Shea Terrell. A Nation Fermented
Chandlerian growth in a ‘taboo market’? The American deathcare industry since the early 20th century
Political science (11 works) · History (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economic history (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · European history and politics (7 works) · German (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economy (5 works)