David Hamlin is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University.
"...Work and Play offers a sophisticated portrait of the toy
industry and the culture that supported it. Its analyses are
deeper, subtler, and mre complex than this review can do justice to
here. It is a must-read for any reader of this journal."
-Andrew Donson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Enterprise
and Society
"Exciting in the scope of its analytic purview, Work and Play
explores not only the traditional business history of the toy
industry in the Second Empire but also the cultural history of toys
as well as the intellectual debates about the place of play in the
cultivation of bourgeois individuals. In each arena, Hamlin makes
extremely valuable contributions."
—Andrew Stuart Bergerson, Associate Professor of History at the
University of Missouri-Kansas City and author of Ordinary Germans
in Extraordinary Times: The Nazi Revolution in Hildesheim
"A creative, groundbreaking study. By using the toy industry to
explore the 'reciprocal relationship between economics and
culture,' Hamlin shows how imperial Germany was transformed by the
evolving structures and practices of mass retailing and
consumption."
—Dennis Sweeney, Associate Professor of History and Classics,
University of Alberta
"Via an original analysis of toys and play, David Hamlin
beautifully reconstructs the meaning of consumption, production,
modernity, and individualism in Germany. Similar to toys, this book
is full of surprises and insights!"
—Alon Confino, Professor of Modern German and European History,
University of Virginia
"David Hamlin takes that most humble, intimate, and whimsical of
objects, the childhood toy, as a prism through which to re-evaluate
Wilhelmine Germany's economic and social modernity. And indeed, in
this fascinating, ambitious account, the toy industry proves an
ideal case study for the topic."
—Eva Giloi, Journal of Social History
*Journal of Social History*
"Work and Play holds important implications for business history,
labor history, the history of consumption, and the history of
subjectivity . . . in an especially complex and interesting
way."
—Mary Jo Maynes, University of Minnesota, Central European
History
*Central European History*
"Hamlin's sophisticated discussion is...always rewarding, and his
overarching analytical framework is convincing...readers will not
be disappointed with the quality of his research and insights."
—Jeff Bowersox, American Journal of Play
*American Journal of Play*
"...Work and Play offers a sophisticated portrait of the toy
industry and the culture that supported it. Its analyses are
deeper, subtler, and mre complex than this review can do justice to
here. It is a must-read for any reader of this journal."
—Andrew Donson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Enterprise
and Society
*Enterprise and Society*
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