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Daily life in the United States, 1940-1959 : shifting worlds

Author: Eugenia Kaledin
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Series: '">Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series.
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Kaledin, Eugenia.
Daily life in the United States, 1940-1959.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606357126
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Eugenia Kaledin
ISBN: 031329786X 9780313297861
OCLC Number: 43445724
Description: xiv, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: PART I: THE 1940s: THE WAR YEARS AND BEYOND: Introduction to the 1940s: an old-fashioned world --
Community and family in the 1940s --
Movies define wartime America --
Science and technology --
Changing social attitudes --
PART II: THE 1950s: THE POSTWAR YEARS AND THE ATOMIC AGE: 1950, a brand-new world --
Changing institutions --
The Cold War and the consumer --
Television defines postwar America --
Postwar cultural changes --
The eye of the camera --
Conclusion.
Series Title: Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series.
Responsibility: Eugenia Kaledin.

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