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Author Rieger, Bernhard, 1967-

Title The people's car : a global history of the Volkswagen Beetle / Bernhard Rieger.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (406 pages) : illustrations
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Volkswagen Beetle automobile -- History.
TRANSPORTATION -- Automotive -- General.
Volkswagen Beetle automobile. (OCoLC)fst01168875
Volkswagen Beetle automobile -- History.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
Added Title Global history of the Volkswagen Beetle
Other Form: Print version: Rieger, Bernhard, 1967- People's car. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013 9780674050914 (DLC) 2012029928 (OCoLC)810273534
ISBN 9780674075733 (electronic bk.)
0674075730 (electronic bk.)
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