An edition of Homeward bound (1988)

Homeward bound

American families in the Cold War era

Fully rev. and updated 20th anniversary ed., with new chapter on post 9/11 America.
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An edition of Homeward bound (1988)

Homeward bound

American families in the Cold War era

Fully rev. and updated 20th anniversary ed., with new chapter on post 9/11 America.
  • 4.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 6 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

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Publish Date
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
302

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Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Homeward Bound
Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Dec 19, 2017, Basic Books
paperback
Cover of: Homeward bound
Homeward bound: American families in the Cold War era
2008, Basic Books
in English - Fully rev. and updated 20th anniversary ed., with new chapter on post 9/11 America.
Cover of: Homeward bound
Homeward bound: American families in the Cold War era
1999, Basic Books
in English - Rev. and updated ed.
Cover of: Homeward Bound
Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
January 1990, Basic Books
in English
Cover of: Homeward bound
Homeward bound: American families in the Cold War era
1988, Basic Books
in English

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Book Details


Table of Contents

Containment at home : Cold War, warm hearth
Depression : hard times at home
War and peace : fanning the home fires
Explosive issues : sex, women, and the bomb
Brinkmanship : sexual containment on the home front
Baby boom and birth control : the reproductive consensus
The commodity gap : consumerism and the modern home
Hanging together : for better or for worse
The end of containment : the baby boom comes of age.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.850973/09045
Library of Congress
HQ535 .M387 2008, HQ535.M387 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
302

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23156683M
Internet Archive
homewardboundame00maye_270
ISBN 13
9780465010202
LCCN
2008015412
OCLC/WorldCat
221665035
Library Thing
5313
Goodreads
5089306

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N 1959, the year the atomic-age newlyweds spent their honeymoon in a fall-out shelter, when the baby boom and the cold war were both at their peak.
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