49.4 - High Society from a Global Perspective

Special Issue – High Society from a Global Perspective: Mass Media and Social Transformation in the Twentieth Century. (Juliane Hornung, Nicolai Hannig, Emanuel V. Steinbacher, and Margit Szöllösi-Janze)

• Juliane Hornung, Nicolai Hannig, Emanuel V. Steinbacher & Margit Szöllösi-Janze: High Society from a Global Perspective, or: The Fabrication of Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Contributions

• Juliane Hornung: New York – Bayreuth – Hyderabad: High Society’s Global Reach in the 1920s and 1930s.
• Michael Homberg: High Life. Jet-Setters, Playboys, and the Global High Society, 1950s to 1970s.
• Erica L. Ball: Madam C. J. Walker and the Origins of Black American High Society.
• Emanuel V. Steinbacher: Mediating Upper Class and High Society Around 1900: The Example of Evelyn Nesbit and Harry Thaw.
• Nicolai Hannig & Julia Engelschalt: Fashion, Mobility, and Protest: The Sapeur Movement in Congo.
• Ryan Linkof: The Emperor Has No Clothes: King Edward VIII and the Scandal of Bodily Exposure.
• Mark White: John F. Kennedy, America’s “Royal Family,” and the Apex of High Society.