Strength through Joy

Shelley Baranowski is Professor of History at the University of Akron. Her previous books include The Confessing Church: Conservative Elites and the Nazi State (1986) and The Sanctity of Rural Life: Nobility, Protestantism and Nazism in Weimar Prussia (1995). She has also co-edited Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture and Identity in Modern Europe and North America (2001), with Ellen Furlough.

• Introduction; 1. Nazism, popular aspirations, and mass consumption on the road to power; 2. 'A volk strong in nerve': Strength through Joy's place in the Third Reich; 3. The beauty of labor: 'plant community' and coercion; 4. Mass tourism, the cohesive nation, and visions of empire; 5. Racial community and individual desires: tourism, the standard of living, and popular consent; 6. Memories of the past and promises for the future: Strength through Joy in wartime; 7. Epilogue: the end of 'German' consumption.

"All in all, this is a very useful book, particularly for those who seek an introductory overview. It convincingly extends the subject well beyond its classic boundaries by opening up new perspectives on the relation between consumption and National Socialism." American Historical Review