Buying Into Change
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-0506-3 (ISBN)
Buying into Change examines how the development of a mass consumer society under the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1939–1975) inserted Spain into transnational consumer networks and set the stage for Spain’s transition to democracy during the late 1970s. This transition is broadly significant to both a Spanish public still struggling to redefine their society after Franco and to scholars who have long debated the origins of Spain’s current democracy, yet many aspects of it remain largely unexamined.
Buying into Change incorporates mass consumption into our understanding of Spain’s democratic transition by tracing the spread and social impact of new foreign-influenced department stores, of imported innovations such as modern mass advertising, and of consumer magazines that promoted foreign products. Initially, these enterprises backed Franco’s conservative policies, and the regime in turn encouraged consumption in order to improve its image both domestically and abroad.
Spain’s new globally oriented commerce ultimately sold retailers and shoppers not just foreign ways of buying and selling but also subversive ideas. Imported 1960s fashions brought along countercultural notions on issues such as gender equality. And as Spaniards consumed more like their foreign neighbors, they increasingly viewed themselves as cosmopolitan and European and identified with liberal political conditions abroad, undermining Francoism’s doctrine of national exceptionalism, thus laying the social foundations for democratization and European integration in Franco’s wake.
Alejandro J. GÓmez del Moral is senior lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Helsinki.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. World-Class Stores and (Inter)national Ambassadors: The Department Store and the Formation of a Spanish Mass Consumer Society under the Early Dictatorship, 1939–1957
2. Imagining a New Señora Consumer: Emerging Mass Consumption, Gendered Consumer Magazines, and the First Rumblings of Boom-Era Cosmopolitanism, 1937–1956
3. (Super)Marketing Western Modernity: Self-Service, Sociocultural Change, and the Professionalization of Food Retailing during Spain’s Miracle Years
4. “You Can Achieve Anything Nowadays If You Have Good Publicity”: The Spanish Advertising Industry and Consumer Media in the International Integration of Late Franco-Era Spain
5. “On That Day, Borders Did Not Exist”: Department Stores and Social Liberalization in Spain, 1960–1975
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.04.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 9 photographs, 12 illustrations, 1 table, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-0506-5 / 1496205065 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-0506-3 / 9781496205063 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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