Title Cold war hothouses : inventing postwar culture, from cockpit to playboy / Beatriz Colomina, AnnMarie Brennan, and Jeannie Kim, editors.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	306.0973 C688C	Check Shelf

Description	287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Cold war/hot houses -- Cockpit -- Forecast -- Plastics -- Playroom -- Toy -- Mission 66 -- Beat space -- Pornotopia.
Summary	"Steeped in technological innovation and driven by unprecedented growth, life in America after World War II was transformed in every aspect and at every scale. From the military-industrial complex and suburban sprawl to the ballpoint pen and the TV dinner, the by-products of the Cold War radically altered physical space and human experience. In the half-century that separates these developments from our own time, however, our awe at the advances of postwar society has softened to nostalgia, and our affection for the everyday objects that were left behind has clouded our view of the enormous spatial reorganizations and transformations that took place, Cold War Hothouses casts an eye on this pivotal time in history, when scientists and architects, industrialists and advertisers, invented nothing short of a new American culture."--Jacket.
Subject	Material culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- History -- 1945-
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
	United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Material culture. (OCoLC)fst01011739
	Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Technological innovations. (OCoLC)fst01145002
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Utopische Architektur (DE-588)4127693-0
	Kunststoff (DE-588)4033676-1
	Architektur (DE-588)4002851-3
	Sachkultur (DE-588)4051157-1
	Ost-West-Konflikt (DE-588)4075770-5
	1940-1949.
	1950-1959.
	1960-1969.
	Coutume sociale.
	Culture matérielle.
	Innovation technologique.
	United States.
	United States.
Chronological Term	Since 1900
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Colomina, Beatriz.
	Brennan, Annmarie.
	Kim, Jeannie.
ISBN	1568983026 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	9781568983028 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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