Cold War kitchen

Americanization, technology, and European users

"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...

Engels | 415 pagina's | The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. [etc.] | 2009

Gedrukt boek

Urban machinery

inside modern European cities

Artikelen over technologische, economische, bouwkundige en tal van andere aspecten van de modernisering van Europese steden sinds halverwege de negentiende eeuw.

Non-fictie

Engels | 351 pagina's | The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [etc.] | 2008

Gedrukt boek

Charles Bazerman The languages of Edison's light

Engels | 416 pagina's | The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [etc.] | 1999

Gedrukt boek

Janet Abbate Inventing the Internet

Engels | 264 pagina's | The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA [etc.] | 1999

Gedrukt boek

Eda Kranakis Constructing a bridge

an exploration of engineering culture, design, and research in nineteenth-century France and America

Engels | 453 pagina's | MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., [etc.] | 1997

Gedrukt boek

H.M. Collins Artificial experts

social knowledge and intelligent machines

Engels | 266 pagina's | MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., [etc.] | 1990

Gedrukt boek