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Ruth Oldenziel

Ruth Oldenziel is Professor University of Technology, Eindhoven and Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Karin Zachmann is University Professor for the history of technology at the Zentralinstitut for the History of Technology of the Technical University Munich.

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Cold War Kitchen

Americanization, Technology, and European Users
Edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann

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.