Cold War kitchen

Description

"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 of politicians and statesmen to the "small" politics of users and interest groups. Cold War Kitchen looks at the kitchen as material object and symbol, considering the politics and the practices of one of the most famous technological icons of the mid-twentieth century."--Jacket.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Inside technology

Other Editions

• Cold War kitchen: Americanization, technology, and European usersMIT Press2008-01-01
• Cold War KitchenMIT Press2011-01-01
• Cold War KitchenMIT Press2011-01-01