Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users

by Benjamin K. Sovacool and Marilyn A. Brown

Book Overview

The kitchen as political symbol and material reality in the cold war years.

Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev's famous "kitchen debate" in 1958 involved more than the virtues of American appliances. Both Nixon and Khrushchev recognized the political symbolism of the modern kitchen; the kind of technological innovation represented in this everyday context spoke to the political system that produced it. The kitchen connects the "big" politics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516136
• ISBN13: 9780262516136
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher