The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics: A Brief History With Documents - Brossura

Phillips, Sarah T.; Hamilton, Shane

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ISBN 10: 0312677103 ISBN 13: 9780312677107

Casa editrice: Bedford/st Martins, 2014

Riassunto

This innovative treatment of the Kitchen Debate reveals the event not only as a symbol of U.S. -Soviet military and diplomatic rivalry but as a battle over living standards that profoundly shaped the economic, social, and cultural contours of the Cold War era. The introduction situates the Debate in a survey of the Cold War, and an unprecedented collection of primary-source selections—including Soviet accounts never before translated for an English-speaking audience—connects the Debate to consumer society, gender ideologies, and geopolitics. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions to consider, and a bibliography enhance students’ understanding of this defining moment of the Cold War.

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L'autore:

Shane Hamilton (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, where he specializes in social and political histories of technology, capitalism, and agriculture. His book, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy, won the Theodore Saloutos Award for Best Book in Agricultural History. He has published numerous articles and reviews in economic, agricultural, and technological history.

Sarah Phillips (Ph.D., Boston University) is associate professor of history at Boston University, where she specializes in American political history. The author of This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal, she has also written essays and articles in environmental, agricultural, and transnational history.

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• Editore: Bedford/st Martins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0312677103
• ISBN 13: 9780312677107
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 171