Selling France to the French: The French Zone of Occupation in Western Germany, 1945–c.1955

Autor:	K. H. Adler
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	History Military government Political science Toise language Economic history French Social history World history Administration (government) language.human_language West germany
Zdroj:	Contemporary European History. 21:575-595
ISSN:	1469-2171 0960-7773
DOI:	10.1017/s0960777312000380
Popis:	This article contributes to the literature of occupation, as well as to transnational history, by exploring the social history of the military government in the French Zone of Occupation in West Germany (ZFO). It uses the Zone as a case study to understand the construction of a French community abroad by looking at systems of buying and selling, and asks whether these systems were not in themselves constitutive of the very transformation of members of the military government into a ‘French community’. By investigating the insistence that French customers buy French goods at the économat, the shop restricted to their use, the article claims that gender, family and commercial practice helped to define home for members of the French administration in Germany.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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