Cold War Hot Houses

Author : Beatriz Colomina
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616890878
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Hothouses written by Beatriz Colomina and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technological innovation and unprecedented physical growth of the cold war era permeated American life in every aspect and at every scale. From the creation of the military-industrial complex and the beginnings of suburban sprawl to the production of the ballpoint pen and the TV dinner, the artifacts of the period are a numerous and diverse as they are familiar. Over the past half-century, our awe at the advances of postwar society has softened to nostalgia, and our affection for its material culture has clouded our memories of the enormous spatial reorganizations and infrastructural transformations that changed American life forever.

Author : Peter Tsouras
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739435595
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Hot written by Peter Tsouras and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfread A. Reisch
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155225230
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Books in the Cold War written by Alfread A. Reisch and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reveals the hidden story of the secret book distribution program to Eastern Europe financed by the CIA during the Cold War. At its height between 1957 and 1970, the book program was one of the least known but most effective methods of penetrating the Iron Curtain, reaching thousands of intellectuals and professionals in the Soviet Bloc. Reisch conducted thorough research on the key personalities involved in the book program, especially the two key figures: S. S. Walker, who initiated the idea of a ?mailing project,? and G. C. Minden, who developed it into one of the most effective political and psychological tools of the Cold War. The book includes excellent chapters on the vagaries of censorship and interception of books by communist authorities based on personal letters and accounts from recipients of Western material. It will stand as a testimony in honor of the handful of imaginative, determined, and hard-working individuals who helped to free half of Europe from mental bondage and planted many of the seeds that germinated when communism collapsed and the Soviet bloc disintegrated.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RIBA Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark S. Rawlinson
Publisher : Berg 3pl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Visual Culture written by Mark S. Rawlinson and published by Berg 3pl. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual culture - art, advertising, architecture, cinema, television, cartography, video, the internet and images of science - has shaped American national identity more than any other country. This book explores how visual culture has at once transformed and consolidated the image of the United States.

Author : Lori Lyn Bogle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cold War: Hot wars of the Cold War written by Lori Lyn Bogle and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Masey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Confrontations written by Jack Masey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World's Fairs and International Exhibitions have always had a political as well as a commercial and cultural context. This was particularly true during the Cold War when America and the Soviet Union used architecture and design to represent their opposing political ideologies. Jack Masey served with the United States Information Agency from 1951 to 1979, for many years as Director of Design. This important new book draws on his recollections and extensive new illustrative material to detail the significant role played by architects and designers in shaping America's image during the cultural Cold War.

Author : Boris Kachka
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451691912
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hothouse written by Boris Kachka and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating account of the book publisher who is home to more Nobel Prize-winning writers than any other publishing house in the world reveals the era and city that built FSG through the stories of two men—Roger Straus, and Robert Giroux.

Author : Peter G. Tsouras
Publisher : Tantor eBooks
ISBN 13 : 161803023X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Hot written by Peter G. Tsouras and published by Tantor eBooks. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was in the Third World that the ambitions and fears of the two Cold War superpowers were played out v Korea, Vietnam, Egypt and Syria, Afghanistan. In their bizarre way, these were carefully controlled wars, carefully controlled in the sense that neither great power allowed itself to become directly engaged in a hot war with the other. Equally, neither allowed itself to go for broke in a grand sweep across the Third World in fear of provoking that final confrontation. But this fear of direct confrontation was never as rigidly controlled as one would think. Again and again events veered towards a clash between Eagle and Bear. The authors of this book make real such terrifying possibilities as Korea or the 67 War dragging in both superpowers; they predict the consequences of the United States or the Soviet Union attempting radical strategies in Vietnam or in a divided Germany, either to follow the British success in Malaya or to invade the North; they imagine the invasion of Cuba when the delicate signals failed to find a way out of the Missile Crisis and bring to life a scenario in which the Soviet Union knocks the Great Game off the board by using Afghanistan as base to bring down Pakistan and achieve its warm water port on the Indian Ocean. Cold War Hot vividly brings to life these and many other alternate scenarios, taking the reader behind the scenes at these momentous moments in history. In showing what could have happened, the authors show how precarious the Cold War peace actually was, and how little it would have taken to tip the balance into World War Three.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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