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About the Author
Arthur P. Molella is director of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution. Scott Gabriel Knowles 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 The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in M
Reviews
Presenting new perspectives on the staging of the Cold War, this valuable book examines superpower rivalry and the peculiar technological optimism of that era. The authors show how expositions offered visitors improbable utopian visions, politicizing urban planning, architecture, the space race, digital technologies, consumer goods, and nuclear energy." - David E. Nye, University of Minnesota
"This is a marvelous collection of essays that illuminates the role of world's fairs in shaping the cultural contours of the Cold War. The essays are far-reaching, including pieces on the US and USSR as well as illuminating analysis of world's fairs and the Cold War in Australia, Japan, and Singapore. The breadth and depth of the scholarship is impressive and sets the stage for understanding the most recent wave of world's fairs in the 21st century." - Robert W. Rydell, author of All the World's a Fair
Book Information
ISBN 9780822945789
Author Arthur P. Molella
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press