{"product_id":"worlds-fairs-in-the-cold-war-science-technology-and-the-culture-of-progress-9780822945789","title":"World's Fairs in the Cold War: Science, Technology, and the Culture of Progress","description":"The post-World War II science-based technological revolution inevitably found its way into almost all international expositions with displays on atomic energy, space exploration, transportation, communications, and computers. Major advancements in Cold War science and technology helped to shape new visions of utopian futures, the stock-in-trade of world's fairs. From the 1940s to the 1980s, expositions in the United States and around the world, from Brussels to Osaka to Brisbane, mirrored Cold War culture in a variety of ways, and also played an active role in shaping it. This volume illustrates the cultural change and strain spurred by the Cold War, a disruptive period of scientific and technological progress that ignited growing concern over the impact of such progress on the environment and humanistic and spiritual values. Through the lens of world's fairs, contributors across disciplines offer an integrated exploration of the US-USSR rivalry from a global perspective and in the context of broader social and cultural phenomena--faith and religion, gender and family relations, urbanization and urban planning, fashion, modernization, and national identity--all of which were fundamentally reshaped by tensions and anxieties of the Atomic Age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arthur Molella\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822945789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur P. Molella (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eArthur P. Molella\u003c\/b\u003e is director emeritus of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eScott Gabriel Knowles (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eScott Gabriel Knowles\u003c\/b\u003e is professor and head of the department of history at Drexel University. He is a research fellow of the Disaster Research Center of the University of Delaware. Knowles is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eImagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45293230882931,"sku":"9780822945789","price":89.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_684b55f9-af5b-46fd-8a42-039bf526cc5b.jpg?v=1785415808","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/worlds-fairs-in-the-cold-war-science-technology-and-the-culture-of-progress-9780822945789","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}