The people's car [electronic resource] : a global history of the Volkswagen Beetle / Bernhard Rieger
- Author
- Rieger, Bernhard, 1967-
- Additional Titles
- Global history of the Volkswagen Beetle
- Published
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (406 pages) : illustrations
Access Online
- Contents
- 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.
- Summary
- "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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780674075733 (electronic bk.)
0674075730 (electronic bk.) - Note
- AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Technical Details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the Robert E. and Joyce L. Umbaugh Libraries Endowment for the Penn State DuBois Campus Library; 2013
- Endowment Note
- Robert E. and Joyce L. Umbaugh Libraries Endowment for the Penn State DuBois Campus Library
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