1st Edition
Capitalist Cold Emotions and the Economy in Europe and the United States
Part I
A Cold System?
Chapter 1
The Cold Bourgeoisie. Affect and Colonial Property
By Henrike Kohpeiß
Chapter 2
Cold Pop. How West German Pop Culture Began to Embrace the Modern World
By Florian Völker
Part II
Cold Capitalists?
Chapter 3
Cold Melancholy. Tempers of Financial Pathology in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
By Timothy Attanucci
Chapter 4
Citizen-Subjects of Capitalism. Comparing the Autobiographies of John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton and Rose Friedman
By Maurice Cottier
Chapter 5
Hope, Indignation, Nostalgia. The Emotional Navigation of Urban Modernity in Post-War Istanbul
By Emre Gönlügür
Part III
Cold Markets?
Chapter 6
Warm Socialism and Cold Capitalism? The Ongoing Debate Over the Economic Reconstruction of Eastern Germany After Revolution and Reunification, 1989–1990
By Marcus Böick
Chapter 7
“Small Group, Big Business”. Imagining Capitalism and Capitalists in Late-Socialist Poland
By Florian Peters
Chapter 8
“Closed Doors, Sealed Lips”. Emotional Practices on Legal and Illegal Art Markets in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
By Paul Franke
Biography
Agnes Arndt is a senior researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies and has worked extensively on Modern European History and the Cultural History of Economics. She is the author of Intellektuelle in der Oppostion (2007) and Rote Bürger (2013) and the co-author of Feeling Political (2022). [email protected]
Kerstin Maria Pahl is a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development specializing in the cultural history of the Anglophone world. Her publications include Revisiting the History of Emotions (ed. 2023) and The Visual Worlds of Life Writing. Portraits and Biographies in England, 1680-1750 (2024). [email protected]
